Everyday Worship

I find great comfort in the fact that we can engage in worship anywhere at anytime. Growing up in church I had the notion that real worship only happened on Sundays and Wednesdays when we came together to sing songs and have a service. But if that was true, how could we live out a Christian life in worship of God without looking like an idiot? (singing & clapping as we go throughout our day, kneeling in the middle of the office by the water cooler...what?)

Worship is everything we do...done to the glory of God. When we give our best effort at work because we recognize that God provided us with that opportunity to provide for our family, that's worship. When we eat healthy and work up a sweat at the gym because we're thankful for the body that God entrusted to our care, that's worship. When we love our kids and give them the time of day even when we don't feel like it because we know that God's never too busy for us, that's worship.

I'm all for corporate worship...I mean, I love it! (good thing since I'm a music pastor--ha!) But if that's the only avenue of worship that we engage in on a weekly basis, we're missing it BIG TIME! Our everyday life is meant to be lived out in worship...from work to play to church to marriage to talking, eating, drinking and laughing.

Thank God that He doesn't live only in the church, nor does He only take notice of our lives when we're singing songs about Him. Truth is He's interested in every facet of our being; after all, He made us who we are anyhow! I think He's overjoyed when we reciprocate that interest by seeking to live out the life He gave to us in perpetual worship of Him. All it takes is a decision on our part to do so!