Worship

How do we worship God? Is worship only about singing hymns, songs of praise, and giving of our time and money on the designated day? How often do we actually have the opportunity to worship God? I believe that we have the chance each moment of our lives, we just do not take it very often because we do not see these moments as opportunities to worship. How often to you see the chance to minister to the person who cuts in front of you in line as a chance to worship the Creator? Most of us see this as a "slap in the face" and have the need to assert out rights and let them know how they have wronged us. However, what if we could see that they are just like us, we are connected, and that we now have the opportunity to join them in anger and frustration or to bring peace and love to the situation. Jesus told us

Here's another old saying that deserves a second look: 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.' Is that going to get us anywhere? Here's what I propose: 'Don't hit back at all.' If someone strikes you, stand there and take it. If someone drags you into court and sues for the shirt off your back, giftwrap your best coat and make a present of it. And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life. No more tit-for-tat stuff. Live generously. Matthew 5:38-42

Take occasions when you think that others should be doing something different then they are to worship your God, to live in connection to the Creator by acting like Christ. Bring love to a situation of anger. Bring peace to a situation full of frustration. Turn your own will over and act as Christ is telling us and live generously! This is true worship! Worship is not just the singing of songs or the giving of your money or time. True worship is the giving of your life to others and living our life as much like God as we can because we are connected by the Creator's spirit. Jesus reminds us

It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration." John 4:23-24

Worship comes out of our spirit, which is God's spirit in us. Today rely on that spirit to help you show kindness to everyone you meet, to truly be compassionate to those around you, even to the ones that seemed to have forgotten whose they are - because we are all God's children! Namaste'