Born to worship

We had a worship gathering at Grace Capital Church last night.  It was a wonderful time of singing, worshipping, and praising God who has set us free from so many of the roots that have kept us from living in the freedom that He provides for us.  The band was great and I think they did a great job of keeping the focus off of themselves and on God whom we were worshipping.  I believe that we have been doing a lot of heavy work over the past few weeks as we’ve investigated the roots that are intertwined in us and this was a great time for us all to blow off a little steam, to celebrate the freedom we have in Christ, and start replacing those messy roots with good roots; roots that are grounded in the Word of God and watered by the Holy Spirit.

 

There is one message I want to follow up from last night with.  Worship isn’t what we do; worship is who we are.  We don’t come to church to worship and then go a week until we can come to worship again.  We worship every day by living a lifestyle of praise and worship to God.  We live thankful lives and grateful lives as a means of worshipping Him.  

 

I believe that so many of us come to church on Sunday and let Him set us free from the shackles that bind us and feel His freedom as we worship and praise.  The only problem comes when we wake up on Monday morning and put those shackles right back on ourselves and bind ourselves up again because our worship experience is over.  We need to remember that the Son has come to set us free and that when the Son has set us free we are free indeed!  We don’t need to shackle ourselves again with the junk that we laid at the foot of the cross.  Jesus paid the price for all that junk.  I believe an attitude of constant worship prevents us from re-shackling ourselves.

 

So, as we go about our mundane Mondays, tired Tuesdays, woeful Wednesdays, and so on, let’s remember that we are worshippers.  Let’s let our worship make our Mondays magnificent, our Tuesdays terrific, and our Wednesdays wonderful.  We can make this happen as we live to worship Him who created us, Him who loves us unconditionally, and Him who set us free.