Worshp Isn't Just For Sunday

 Day 28: Exodus 19:1-24:18

Worship gatherings are a wonderful place to fellowship, celebrate, and to be edified. I love to attend them and listen to laughter and music being made from the hearts of each attendee as they lift Jesus up, and to cheer on those who have surrendered their lives to Jesus and to joyfully sit around the supper table and eat the bread and drink the wine that represents Christ sacrifice. Each gathering gives us hope and encouragement and gives us a boost.

I’ve often heard it said that there are five acts of worship in the gathering: Giving. Singing.Preaching. Lord’s Supper. And, Praying and that in order to do it right, we had to meet in a “church building.”

I have found that worshiping God is so much more than sitting idle in a building and going through “acts” of worship. Worshiping God isn’t confined to a facility once a week and then it is over until the next week; rather, worship is a daily opportunity to demonstrate to our God how much we love, adore and appreciate him

For the Israelites, they are learning to give their entire lives to God and worship will be one of the ways they demonstrate that love, adoration and appreciation. Exodus 19-24

For modern day believers, praying and singing and giving and preaching and taking the Lord’s Supper are all beneficial, they do not solely capture the essence of daily worship. If on one particular Sunday I am unable to sing, does that mean I did not completely worship God? Or, if I left before the sermon started, was my worship cut short, therefore, I did not fully worship? If that were the case we would have a lot of people who do not fully worship God. Or, if worship is confined to a facility only, did many of us go weeks and months without worshiping during the pandemic?

If worship were viewed as described in Ephesians 5:15, “Be careful, then, how you live your life…” then our entire life would change…daily worship would become an integral part of our lives. Everything we do would be a desire to honor God through what we do, say, sing, or places we go. When we praise God for our food, we worship. When help the poor, we worship. When we give clothing to the naked, we worship. When we visit the lonely, we worship, when we work to provide for our families, we worship, when we sing praises to God, we worship. May each day be worship to the Heavenly Father who gave us life!