Everyone worships. Everyone worships somethings, maybe unintentionally but everyone worships. Prioritizing, praising and putting something on a petal stool is worship.
These past couple weeks I have been in a weird spot with worship. Usually God is teaching me ways to worship set apart from singing but lately I have been desperately missing worshiping the Lord by singing.
We have a set team time of worship but sometime that just includes prayer, art, reflecting on the word and less of screaming my lungs out for the Lord. We also don’t have a church time that I would in America to worship because I don’t know about you but I don’t speak Khmer .
A couple weeks ago I realized how much I was longing to sing my little heart out. I kept asking my teammates if they wanted to sing with me, if that meant going on a walk or going into the church. But each time it didn’t work out. I felt so weird.
Some times I would go to my little secret spot behind our house put headphones in and scream but still was so conscious that my whole team could hear me. I was really missing my time in the car when I was alone, where I could sing my head off.
Last week we had a worship night under the stars in this big field. It was absolutely beautiful. Never have I been more in awe and wonder of the Lord. He painted the perfect sky that night. But the music wasn’t that loud and it still felt a little awkward. This was just so weird for me; I have never felt awkward about worship.
My speaker ended up dying and we were just laying under the stars. A couple of my teammates started just starting sing our own songs. It was beautiful and so simple. I have been missing the show. I have been missing the loud speakers. I have been missing the big crowd. But we don’t need any of that to sing to our Jesus.
All we have to do is “sing a joyful noise.” We get to praise the kings of kings. We get to exalt the one who loved us so deeply. We get to have a heart of gratitude in every season of our lives.
So worship is definitely more then just singing, its a heart posture. But how exciting is it that it can just be go simple as laying down in deep surrender, raising our hands in worship of the king, a joyful noise all we have to do is exalt.
If we are going to worship something in this day why not stop and worship the king of kings. Let praise rise day and night. The way we live, breathe and step can exalt Him. Choose that.
