Worship
SCRIPTURE:
Psalm 63:2-4
"I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands."
DEVOTIONAL:
We need to come before God in worship with a posture of praise, knowing that He doesn’t want only part of us, but He both wants and deserves all that we can offer Him. We can connect with God in new ways when we humble ourselves in worship. We can look to scripture for different ways we’ve been taught to worship: with singing, playing of instruments, clapping, dancing, and lifting our hands.
We can see through these postures ways that we extend ourselves to be closer to God and
to worship Him for the ways we’ve seen Him work in our lives. What would our worship look
like if we preached the gospel to ourselves each day? If we walked through all the different times the Lord has had favor on us, seen us through a situation or stood alongside us in the fire – our worship would reflect the goodness and grace that He’s lavished on us.
David, when writing this Psalm, was reflecting on the ways he had seen God move in his
life and he says, because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Can we proclaim
this over our lives today? If not, how can we reshape our outlook? And if the answer is yes, then
how are we praising Him?
Everyone has a different way of humbling themselves during worship and there’s no way
that is better than another if they reach the same end goal of honoring our Savior. For some
people, when they worship they feel close to God by dropping to their knees, being overcome
with humility at the feet of the Lord. Others, they sing songs of praise with their eyes closed and
arms outstretched, letting go in surrender. Maybe it’s by swaying or clapping our hands along
with the song – whatever it is, we ought to do it wholeheartedly, not because the person next to
us is doing it or we believe it to make us more holy – but because God has been good to us and
deserves it.
There are some of us that need to be challenged in this regard. Maybe we’ve never done
any of these and we are even hesitant to sing aloud at church on Sundays or when CYA
gathers. We are encouraged to step out in faith that God will meet us in times of worship and
surrender our hearts to Him. The beauty in worship is that there’s room for everyone – room for our brokenness and doubt but also for our joy and thanksgiving.
Questions:
How do you commonly find yourself praising God?
How can you challenge yourself to worship in a new way?
How do you feel when you are worshiping?
How would your life be different if that feeling overflowed into the rest of your day?
Psalm 63:2-4
"I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands."
DEVOTIONAL:
We need to come before God in worship with a posture of praise, knowing that He doesn’t want only part of us, but He both wants and deserves all that we can offer Him. We can connect with God in new ways when we humble ourselves in worship. We can look to scripture for different ways we’ve been taught to worship: with singing, playing of instruments, clapping, dancing, and lifting our hands.
We can see through these postures ways that we extend ourselves to be closer to God and
to worship Him for the ways we’ve seen Him work in our lives. What would our worship look
like if we preached the gospel to ourselves each day? If we walked through all the different times the Lord has had favor on us, seen us through a situation or stood alongside us in the fire – our worship would reflect the goodness and grace that He’s lavished on us.
David, when writing this Psalm, was reflecting on the ways he had seen God move in his
life and he says, because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Can we proclaim
this over our lives today? If not, how can we reshape our outlook? And if the answer is yes, then
how are we praising Him?
Everyone has a different way of humbling themselves during worship and there’s no way
that is better than another if they reach the same end goal of honoring our Savior. For some
people, when they worship they feel close to God by dropping to their knees, being overcome
with humility at the feet of the Lord. Others, they sing songs of praise with their eyes closed and
arms outstretched, letting go in surrender. Maybe it’s by swaying or clapping our hands along
with the song – whatever it is, we ought to do it wholeheartedly, not because the person next to
us is doing it or we believe it to make us more holy – but because God has been good to us and
deserves it.
There are some of us that need to be challenged in this regard. Maybe we’ve never done
any of these and we are even hesitant to sing aloud at church on Sundays or when CYA
gathers. We are encouraged to step out in faith that God will meet us in times of worship and
surrender our hearts to Him. The beauty in worship is that there’s room for everyone – room for our brokenness and doubt but also for our joy and thanksgiving.
Questions:
How do you commonly find yourself praising God?
How can you challenge yourself to worship in a new way?
How do you feel when you are worshiping?
How would your life be different if that feeling overflowed into the rest of your day?
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