Why Do We keep Talking About Worship? What Does It All Mean!?

Worship is about giving glory to God for who He is, while praise is giving glory to God for what He has done. When I worship, I think about all that God has done, and I say God you have been faithful, gracious, wonderful, loving, working wonders, you have been truly good to me and naturally I say I love you. The way you say I love you can be different from person to person. Like we all know, there’s different ways to show someone you love them, those methods are the same when it comes to God.

1. -         You can show them through your actions: so that would be you being obedient, loving towards other people, helping the needy, serving in a ministry at your church and glorifying God from staying away from sin.
2. -       You could also show someone you love them by offering them gifts: you could do this towards God with tithes and offering. It could also be you blessing Him with your gifting and talents.
3. -        You also prove to someone you love them by making time for them (sacrificing your time): by spending time with God you are showing him that you love him. You could have been doing other things, but you chose to spend that time with Him. Essentially you are honoring him.
4. -      Finally you show someone you love them by telling them.

That’s what worship is. It’s all of that. It’s an expression of your love for God. This explains it why some people get emotional in the presence of God. Once you take in all the beauty that’s found in Christ you can breakdown in tears because his love is too much for you to bear. It’s too powerful and we feel that our worship will never be comparable or enough. Though it will never be comparable, it is enough for him. Don’t let the enemy lie to you and bring you down by bringing up your past. There’s nothing more beautiful to the eyes of God than seeing a sinner worship him. That’s all God wants. For you to give him glory and to acknowledge his splendour. Essentially by worshipping (loving God) you are giving yourself away. You start belonging to him and he starts belonging to you.

Now understand that if you’re not worshipping God, it is because you are worshiping something else. By worshipping that other thing, you start belonging to it, and it starts belonging to you. Hmm that’s deep. What do I mean? Let me ask you this: who do you try to please through your actions? Yourself, your friends, your haters? Who are you offering your gifts and talents to? Yourself, the world, your job, your haters? Who are you sacrificing all your time for? Your job, your bf/gf, yourself, your haters? And finally, to who are you saying ILY to? Yourself, money, your bf/gf? Whenever you are putting someone else in the place of God, whenever he is not the first person you are expressing your love to, you are worshipping something or someone else. Everything and everyone is fighting for your love, affection and your attention. And guess what, so is God. He is a jealous God. He wants to be first on your list, in fact it’s a command… he wants you to show him love … What better way to do that than through worship.

Exodus 20:3-6 (NIV)

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 

6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

By: Vicky (Vessel Speaker)