I feel, lately, like we're only scratching the surface of the truth of God's worship and what it entails - what it should look like, not physically, but rather as a whole. The church for the last 10 - 20 years has been in what many term a "worship revival" and in many ways this is true, but have we reached a plateau? Have we come a certain distance in our journey to really discovering worship that God would like to receive and feel like we've arrived? I feel, at the moment, like a small child who sits in the back seat of the big-ole family car and asks periodically, "Are we there yet?" Sometimes the length of the travel to date makes it feel like we must already be there.

But I don't believe we are - not even close.

While God's name is still used as our reasons for doing things when He is not really the reason, we have road to travel. While our congregations still bicker about what they prefer in musical worship, we have road to travel. While our motives for worshipping God through serving others still contain an element of selfishness, we have road to travel. While we gather corporately for "worship" and complain that we haven't received anything, we have road to travel. While we do things by rote because they have always been done that way in the church, we have road to travel.

Oh merciful God, help us to really see and understand Your greatness and Your mercy towards us, so that we, too, may fall down as though dead and worship You in the way You deserve.


Huh - as I re-read that last part of this post, it reminds me of something William Booth (founder of The Salvation Army) is famous for saying. I'm not one to often quote Willam Booth (uh, until yesterday), but this is something He said:

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

Amen - let's fight for God's glory in every way possible.