Monday, March 17, 2008

time to: revaluate.

Worship is a direct effect of humility and coming under the wing and authority of Jesus Christ. Therefore living a life full of humility and being a reflection of the Lord's characteristics is truly living a life of worship. Seeking to give Him glory in everything that we do also enhances how reverent our lifestyle is. The reference to worship as a posture is a physical act, a spiritual act, a mental act, and an emotional act. The components of our everyday life are directly proportional to how much God's love is running through our veins and overflowing in our hearts. Posture (worship) is a physical act by dying to yourself each and everyday and physically showing God that He is the Supreme, the Father of Lights, the King of King and Lord of Lords. It is a mental act because we heed our thought processes to Him daily. He should take captive our thoughts and completely embody what we meditate upon (Psalm 19:14). It is a spiritual act because it forces us to recognize God as the Provider, Supplier, and completely trust Him to daily be our Provision. Acknowledging the direction of God's spirit and following the story of Levi by completely abandoning all of our expectations and dreams for our own life and bowing down to God's desires and plan display' how one of Jesus' disciples that accomplished many things with the Lord by his side engaged in a continual act of worship from the time that Jesus called his name. (Luke 5:27). Worship and posture are an emotional experience because true worship naturally causes a human to be in absolute, unmistaken awe of the Lord. The inclination of John 3:30, "He must become greater, I must become less." becomes more relevant to one's life the more one chases God's heart in worship. When true worship is lived not just through music, within a moment alone, seeing God's mystifying creation, nor loving people; it is a combination of all of these things and realizing whose name is truly capitalized and who life was created to be lived for. God created us for a purpose. His only desire is to see His children continually worship Him with the breath He provides them with, the sin He rescues them from, and the life He restores in them.

Friday, March 14, 2008

twelve.

It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime, so let me say before we part: so much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me, like a hand print on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend...

("For Good" Wicked - The Original Broadway Cast)