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"My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident.
No wonder I can sing your praises!
Wake up, my heart! Wake up, O lyre and harp!
I will wake the dawn with my song.
I will thank you, Lord, among all the people.
I will sing your praises among the nations.
For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens.
May your glory shine over all the earth."
(Psalm 57:7-11, NLT)
How is your worship?
You may think, "Well, I try to do my job in a way that honors God and points my coworkers to Him, so I guess you could call that worship," or, "I am raising my kids in a self-sacrificial, Christ-like way, and I'm teaching them Scripture, so that is worshipful," or, "I perform this duty or service as unto God, which is worshipful." While those are all great examples of worshiping God through actions that are not inherently worship (and I think we could all stand to do more of that), in the rest of this week's devos, I would like to focus on one of the most explicit forms of worship: praising God aloud through song.
I am not talking about your worship in a Sunday service. I am not talking about your worship in a Wednesday night service. I am talking about your daily, private worship. How is that going?
I get so excited about corporate worship. I get so excited for the set list, for the worship team's intentional building of a set list, and how each part plays on top of one another. I can get wrapped up in how I feel in the moment of corporate worship and get caught up in worshiping with my brothers and sisters in Christ. I can get caught up in not singing for a bit and hearing everyone around me singing and wondering if this is what Heaven will be like. I love, love, love corporate worship...
BUT...
While there is nothing wrong with anything I just said, if the only worship you're doing is corporate worship, then there is something wrong with your worship.
God is worthy of all of our praise all the time, and not just during a one-hour service on a Sunday or Wednesday. He is worthy of our worship as we are driving in our car on our way to and from work. He is worthy of our worship when we are relaxing at home, listening to music. He is worthy of our worship all the time.
If you look at today's verses from Psalm 57, look at how personal the worship is from the psalmist, David: My heart, my heart, I can sing, my heart, I will wake, my song, I will thank, I will sing, and be exalted. All of these little excerpts from the verses have to do with David giving praise to God. David is praising God "among all the people" as well as "among the nations." David is willing to praise God wherever and in front of whoever. Let us be worshipers of God like David, where it is deeply personal and we are constantly praising and worshiping God.
So I will end this devo how I started it:
How is your worship?
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