Worship is truly a gift from God – a tool used in His hand to bring us into communion with Himself and to establish truth in our hearts. For sure, it is more than a song, more than an expression, more than a declaration of truth. True worship can only spring from a heart fully surrendered, a heart that has begun to glimpse the majesty of God and the frailness of humanity.

It is significant that He commands us in His Word to make music, play instruments, sing, dance, celebrate – not because there is anything sacred about these acts alone, but because God knows just how He made us. He knows that while He requires more than a song, song would be one tool (a powerful one!) that He would use to draw many hearts to Himself. How good of Him to command us to do that which He made us to do.

Worship (whether through song or other) done rightly – in spirit and truth – brings us into God and releases us of ourselves. That’s why I’m convinced that there is healing in worship. Healing, after all, is little more than the process by which we become more fully ourselves, more fully alive, more fully that which He intended from the beginning we would become (a process by which our new life in Christ becomes actualized). Since becoming what God intended has nothing to do with finding ourselves and everything to do with finding Him, we are actually being brought into wholeness when we worship. Worship has everything to do with finding Him… loving Him… walking in His Spirit and His truth. As our lives become saturated with Him, our worship becomes both more and more pleasing to Him and more and more satisfying to us. Simply put, He made us to worship Him. We’re not whole unless we’re doing just that.

Shiree

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