We are commanded to love God with all
our mind heart and soul, if we are to follow this commandant does it not then
mean we must worship God every day?
Realizing that most people think of worship in the corporate sense not
in an only one person thing, let us redefine the parameter of worship, shall
we? Let’s begin to widen worship to our everyday living.
Knowing that worship is showing love and respect to God, the question we have
to ask is how do we do that in everyday living?
Paul tells us this in Romans 12:1-2, “dear
brothers and sisters, I
plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy
sacrifice—the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you,
is this too much to ask? Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but
let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you
will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and
perfect his will really is.”
As we read what Paul is saying here, we begin to see that being a
Christian is more than us feeling good about ourselves. It becomes a lifestyle of showing respect and
love to God by allowing Him to transform our behavior. We are to give up our own way of thinking and
allow God to transform our wants and desires.
We begin to worship God everyday
through our everyday activity in how we treat others. Are we treating them with same type of love
that God has given us, are we working hard for the company we work for. What type of attitude are we having? How do we spend our free time, are we busy doing what the world does or are
looking into Gods word and going to prayer?
Many may be saying I don’t understand, are you saying we should be more
focused on God then ourselves, should we no longer worry about what we may be
missing in order to bring glory God? Yes,
that is what I am saying, we must no longer worry about the things that we
want, we must begin to learn how to live for God, to worship Him from our hearts
not with our words. The world tells us do
what you please worry about advancing yourself, yet God desires for us to love
Him and to advance in Him. He sent His
own son to die on a cross so that we may find freedom from this world and from
sin. Yet so many people instead of truly
serving God, desire to remain in the world because they are afraid of what they
might miss out on. Paul told the Philippians,
“For I live in eager expectation and
hope that I will never do anything that causes me shame, but that I will always
be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past, and that my life will always
honor Christ, whether I live or I die. For to me, living is for Christ, and
dying is even better. Yet if I live,
that means fruitful service for Christ. I really don’t know which is
better. I’m torn between two desires:
Sometimes I want to live, and sometimes I long to go and be with Christ. That
would be far better for me, but it is
better for you that I live. I
am convinced of this, so I will continue with you so that you will grow and
experience the joy of your faith. Then when I return to you, you will have even
more reason to boast about what Christ Jesus has done for me.”(1:20-25)
No
matter what we are doing we are to live for God, I can’t say it any better than
how Francis Chang says it in his book Crazy Love; “To be brutally honest, it doesn’t really matter what place you find
yourself in right now. Your part is to bring Him glory—whether eating a
sandwich on a lunch break, drinking coffee at 12:04 a.m. so you can stay awake
to study, or watching your four-month-old take a nap. The point of your life is
to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because
this whole thing is His. It is His movie, His world, His gift.”
Chan,
Francis (2010-01-01). Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God (pp. 42-43).
David C Cook. Kindle Edition.
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