WORSHIP IS MORE THAN SINGING

Dear Believer,

What do you think worship is?

In some Christian circles, it is believed that fast songs are ‘praise’ and slow songs are ‘worship.’ So when you are singing and dancing in church in an animated manner, you are praising God, and when you raise your hands solemnly in a reverential pose singing soulful songs to God, you are worshipping!

That isn’t true!

Another error that many people espouse is that ‘worship’, (that is constantly singing to God and praising Him like David did) does make God overlook many wrongs in a Believer’s life. A minister told me many years ago that although he had many sins in his life, he made it his duty to always ‘praise and worship God’ so that He’d overlook those faults like He did David’s.

To that man, ‘worship’ is a way to bribe God and turn His eyes away from your faults to Himself.

That, too, is wrong!

And that didn’t seem to work for David, though, for he suffered the consequences of his indiscretions in spite of his singing and all.

Singing may be part of worship, but it is not all that true worship is. 

Let’s read this passage in the Amplified Bible:

Romans 12:1

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

You can see that basically, presenting all we are and all we have including our abilities and faculties is the worship that God wants from us. This is our ‘reasonable service and spiritual worship.’ It is from there that singing, giving and other ‘acts’ of service to God must proceed.

Dear Believer, don’t get caught up in the quest for mere physical connection and ‘emotional massage’ that many experience when they have their religious services. Worship may stir up your feelings, but worship is more than feelings.

Don’t think also that true worship is only connected to a place or a time. Some believe that they can only worship God best in a particular place. Some have set a certain day of the week or month as sacred. Others think that a certain hour is best for ‘worship.’

A woman who was sincerely seeking to worship God asked to be directed to the best mountain for the purpose. Jesus said to the woman:

Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:21-24).

Worship is not about a certain place!

Now, this isn’t a reason to abandon church services. God told us to never forsake assembling together and that to do so is bad manner. (Hebrews 10:25). What God is teaching us is that those ‘acts’ of worship must be based on a life that is consecrated to God or has been offered in total sacrifice.

Judas kissed Jesus. It was an ‘act’ of affection on the surface, but that act had greed and murder as it’s foundation. A person may sing like an angel in church and yet be totally invested in rebellion against God. Jesus said of those people:

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. (Matthew 15:8).

Today is Sunday when most believers gather to fellowship together. It is a good thing to let our acts of spiritual service be based on total consecration to God.
Your life should be a long worship to God. That is your reasonable service.

Have a great day!

Your friend,
Deon.
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For further studies read Romans Chapter 12.