True Worship

Well today began with me, waking up late...as usual. I get up and hurry to get ready for work while waiting to get picked up (considering I was supposed to be doing the "picking up"). Long story short I get picked up, I work 6 grueling hours with 2 of my best friends, we eat pizza together, then I go home to find out it's our family friend's birthday, so finally we go out to eat. After we all ate that grubalicious (oh yeah, that's my word) food my brother and I were encouraged to sing, considering that it was Christian karaoke night (woohoo!) So he played guitar while I sang along with Him and I must say, it was one of my favorite worship moments with God. We sang great songs such as How He Loves, Come Thou Fount, Who Am I, True Love, How Great is Our God, and O Praise Him. Wow, I just feel the presence of God flowing through my voice as I put my heart and mind where it should always be, with God alone.

I have found that when one gives themselves over to God completely, it is in that self-same moment that the person experiences what I call true worship. I define true worship as complete surrender of oneself in order to glorify the God above. This surrender can be achieved through just about anything you do.

1 Corinthians 10:31-"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

So as I sang my heart out to God, I surrendered myself to Him and I realized how important that really is. I have observed that people will know whether you are being sincere or not, maybe not in a particular moment...but from your day to day life and attitude. They see how you treat your job, your family, your friends, and even how you treat your church family. If you are not the same person glorifying the same God in all those aspects, you will be criticized, and I believe, that there is something lacking from your walk with God. What you lack...now listen...is true worship. I believe if you are not the same person wherever you go, you are lacking complete surrender for the sole purpose of glorifying the God above.

People...if you are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ you are a new creation. No matter you do, do it for God's glory.

2 Corinthians 5:13-21-"¹³If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. ¹⁴For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁶So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."