Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.
~Frances J. Roberts
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name.
~ from Hebrews 13
We are going Home beloved. This is most surely the Blessed Hope of the believer. We are going home to see our Brother and His (our) Papa. Oh yes, there will be many people we love there. Oh yes, we will be glad to see them. But the very first thing they are going to say to us is, “Oh beloved, have you seen Him yet!? OH, He is Wonderful!!! Let’s go!!! Let me show you Him!!”
There is a great reason to go home. And those reasons are so compelling, that they will surely change the way we live on the journey.
This is worship.
Worship is about ascribing true worth to the One whom we are surely going to see face-to-face one day.
Worship is about validating the truth that this One paid an immense price for our entry into His presence.
Worship is about believing that the G_d of the universe would not pour out the torrent of His wrath on His own Son for the playing out of some staged epic tale.
Worship is about us being so desperately aware of our desperate need for Him, that we simply abandon interest in any other pursuit.
Worship is about those moments… Those moments where we just know He is in us, and we are in Him. And that things are better each day – and will only get immeasurably better forever.
Worship is about simply living the Lives He has given us the way He has ever intended – Lives that have intentionally abandoned fear and anxiety and doubt and the impulse to bring comfort to one’s own existence.
Worship is the only addiction for which there is no cure. For He truly is the Fountain of Life. And to cease to drink from His well is – not only unnecessary – it is a prospect that a surrendered believer sees as only the worst of choices; and a harbinger of true death.
Worship is about getting our own selves out of the way, so that we can actually look into the full reality of the spiritual and see His glory and feel His touch.
Worship is sometimes the moment when we cease to believe in G_d. We cease to believe, because belief is no longer necessary – we simply know Him.
Worship is about allowing our spirits to scream (and even sometimes our mouths 🙂 ) that barbaric and guttural shout of a warrior as he raises weapon and shield in support of his Captain.
Worship is about simply looking to Him and being amazed at His ongoing amazing-ness.
Oh praise Him! Oh praise Him! Oh praise Him!
Do it now, but oh please join us all on that day, when we will all do it together. Oh my, what a Day that will be.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell.
