How to Worship

8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’”  Luke 4

Deviating from Ezekiel this week.  I want to talk about worship and serving this week.  It's at the front of my mind because yesterday was my first night back at practice with the worship team at my church in about a year.  I stepped down as I was nearing the end of my pregnancy and haven't felt comfortable making the time commitment away from my family until now.

I missed it!  Music is most definitely how I best worship God.  It's hard to put into words, but to me, it doesn't matter how I sound.  While I'm up there singing to the entire congregation, I'm really only singing for one - God!  In the year when I had stepped away from the worship team, I still sang in my car at the top of my lungs, again to my audience of one.  It's a wonderful way to feel connected to God and it gets me energized.

This isn't the answer for everyone.  My husband hates singing.  He tries, but most of the time during service, he stands quietly.  He doesn't have an ear for it and he'll be the first person to admit it.  That's ok, he has his own ways to worship God.  He attends a men's Bible study group with our church and occasionally leads the group - that's his way to worship and serve God.

God made each of us in his image, but he also made us each unique.  We all have different strengths and passions.  Just like there's no one way to eat a Reese's, there's no one way to worship!

I encourage you, find your way to worship if you haven't done so already.  Follow your passions that God gave you and find a way to use it to worship God.  May you joyfully give that gift back to him!