Worship

This week in Elev8, we have been talking about worship. Worship can be an awkward thing for some people. They come to the church service and the worship team gets up on stage and start playing worship music and then they see people worshiping. So they say what is worship? Is it the type of music? Is it when people raise their hands, claps, or dance? I think sometime people get confused what worship really is. Lets look at what God says what worship is.

Romans 11:36-Romans 12:1

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.

Looking at this verse if we focus on the three letters in bold, I think we can really understand what worship is. Worship = Glory + Sacrifice. Let me prove this. Glory is what we put worth into. It is what our passion is, our treasure. Sacrifice is laying something down that means something to us. So if Worship = Glory + Sacrifice ...... then we worship everyday. If we love something we will sacrifice time, money, emotions, energy into whatever we glorify. If its money that we glorify, we will sacrifice things to get money. There is nothing wrong with getting money, or sports, or relationships, but if we sacrifice more for those things then we do for God we have a worship problem. People say they have a problem with drinking, or drugs or whatever and the truth is they dont have a problem with those things, they have a worship problem. 

Whatever you glorify in life, you will sacrifice for that and that will be what you worship. Worship is so much more than music, its living a lifestyle of worship everyday. Worship is our connection to God, and it is expressed in many different ways. 

So if you are struggling with a problem, look at what you are worshiping. The only one worthy of our worship is Jesus, because He did what no other could do. So all glory and honor and worship be to Jesus, the Savior of the world, the one who sets the captives free, and gives hope to the hopeless and life to those that were dead. Amen.

God Bless

Pastor Russell