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What Worship Means to Me

May 05

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[Editor's Note: I'd like to introduce you all to Jeff. He's on my worship team at Crossings Community Church, where he plays guitar and sings. He's also filled in for me on a number of occasions. I asked Jeff to write up a post on what worship means to him, and this is what he wrote. Please join me in welcoming Jeff to LAWN!]

When I was younger, at the age of eight, I accepted Christ into my life. When I was about nine or ten, my father and I would do devotions at night and sing a hymn or two. From even an earlier age than that I was always into music. Listening to the oldies station in the back of my parents station wagon. Always knowing the words to almost every Beach Boys song. You could say I had a passion for music.

But those nights with my dad of singing hymns had started a new passion in my heart. Yeah, of course I love the music. Although if you hear me sing a hymn now, it might be few and far between modern day worship songs. But it started to ingrain in me a passion I would later discover. A passion of my heart. A passion that only the Holy Spirit can give you. The passion of worship.

That is what worship means to me. It’s a passion to love, know, and understand who God is and His Son. It’s an opportunity to lift up your voice in song and praise. Worship is a way to tell God, ” I love you.” It’s a way to say, “Thank you, Jesus.” To say, “Thank you for the Cross.”

Worship is also a way to allow the Holy Spirit to intervene in your life. When you are happy or sad, healthy or hurt, ashamed or not ashamed, it is a way for the Holy Spirit to help you pick yourself up. To have It keep your head held high and keep on running the race. I love to sing and play guitar to lift my Jesus up on high. And when the Holy Spirit takes over… wow, it’s like becoming a new person. Like having a kind of passion that you didn’t know existed.

Worship though is not all about singing or playing an instrument in a worship song. Prayer can be worshiping God and so can many other things you do thoughout the day can be. Worship doesn’t have to be just in song. If you pray to God with a heart full of love and passion, that is worship. Doing your everyday stuff like going to work or school. Staying home with your children or watching over your grandchildren. They all can be acts of worship. If you do those things unto God and do them wholeheartedly unto the Lord, you are worshiping Him.

What does worship mean to me? It means whatever you do – whether sing, play an instrument, pray, work, go to school, or watch over your children – that you are doing it unto the Lord and giving Him all the glory and honor and praise. So if you haven’t today just lift up a praise to Him in all you do. And give Him the glory that is due His Name!