WATCHWORD:
Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. Exodus 23:25
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Psalm 150:6
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. John 4:24
Meditation:
Haste to Find Him
How do we distort our worship of God in those private/personal moments early in the morning or whenever you have quiet time with Him? What do we hang on those minutes that we dedicate to God? Do we have daily devotionals by wonderful theologians who speak to us and we try to imagine they are speaking to our hearts, and, in turn, to our Lord? Do we hang meditational music around our time with Him, or is that simply entertainment? Does our desire to journal our time with the Lord enhance our time with the Lord or does it become a task that we have to complete, each and every time?
Do we hurry up, cram our time with the Lord into a small window, bracketed by breakfast on one side and are own to do list on the other, so that our time with HIM becomes squeezed, as if HE is not a priority? Does our scant “sacred” time force us to pray intentionally, reciting rote scripts which we say as clearly as we can and as rapidly as we possibly can, I love You, Lord. We might just as well simply say “have a nice day.”
What are our priorities? In the morning do you clear your head of the extraneous, the non-spiritual stuff, or do you focus not your mind but your heart, your very soul, on God, your Lord and Savior and surrender it all to him?
Give some thought to eliminating distractions. Turn off music. Set aside your devotional books, Oswald Chambers, Joyce Meyer, and all the rest will wait. They will still be there. Make yourself comfortable. Sit relaxed. Blank out the calendar in your mind. Take some deep breaths. Open your heart to God and let the conversation begin. Free and easy, because you know you are Loved by the one you’re talking with. Nothing hurried, nothing in haste, just one to One.
This is just a conversation with God. No, really, it’s a conversation with a friend, with your very own Papa, with daddy. Just a conversation, nothing more, sharing the content of your heart, with God. Remember it is all about you, Jesus, it is all about you. make that a priority.
We seek the Lord, when, in the calmness of a heart full of prayer, He finds us with gentle words and loving thoughts. Haste not. Amen.
Bulletin Board:
I’m coming back to the heart of worship
And it’s all about you
It’s all about you, Jesus
I’m sorry, Lord, for the thing I’ve made of it
When it’s all about you
It’s all about you, Jesus
Closing Prayer:
Heavenly father, we need to get back to the center of our worship with you, the heart of worship. We know that when we gather together as believers our focus is on You, alone, Jesus. However, in our time together, just You and me, too often I am distracted, relying on devotionals and made-up prayers when all you require of me is to just be who I am. You know me, Lord, through and through, and I want no pretense to come between us. I seek a genuine conversation with You, my Lord. Help me to return to the most important part of worshiping You with my whole being, my heart and my soul. You are my Savior and Lord, and in You I entrust my everything. Amen.
