"Healthy Worship"

  All healthy worship has at its heart a sense of awe and reverence. Reverence and awe bring about an inner conviction and awareness that the Lord our God is greater in all aspects than anything created, since He is the Creator, and that alone should lead us to something greater in our faith. Healthy worship is centered in a complete sense of dependence that we aren't self-made, self-maintained and owe everything about us to our Lord and Master. Healthy worship should deepen our humility leading us to magnify the majesty of God Almighty. "Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire." (Heb. 13:28-29) This is a great summation of healthy worship.

  How we worship and what we bring from our hearts to worship reveal our inner being. We show our insight to our heavenly Father. We show our understanding or lack thereof. Healthy worship is much more than what things look like and the external things going on around us. Too many look to the externals for their up-building and it becomes the focus. It's like looking at a rainbow. People try to break down this optical phenomenon that results from the refraction of light by water droplets. While that may be true, many, so many miss what the rainbow stood for in Gen. 9! It's things like this that help us understand and allows us to see the depth of healthy worship. Our worship is not something we just do but something in the process is being done to us!!

  Healthy worship is to strengthen our trust in Him who we can't see. "And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory." (I Pet. 1:8) When is the last time you had a joy inexpressible in your worship? Have you ever? Healthy worship carries our hearts and minds into the glorious world that is purer and greater than anything we see on this earth. Healthy worship is not about externals or a social gathering. It's all about your inner life: your heart, your soul, your mind and your strength. That inner life reaches beyond the norm and grasps hold of the eternal God by which we give to Him us, all of our being! And that my friend is what God is driving for and what Jesus died for.