This excerpt from John Eldridge’s Restoration Year is right on point! Everything should culminate in worship.
Exult in his holy name; rejoice, you who worship the LORD. Psalm 105:3 NLT
On counsel for spiritual direction, Mother Teresa suggested: Spend one hour of your day in adoration of your Lord and neverdo anything you know is wrong. Follow this, and you’ll be fine.
Such simple yet profound advice. Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God. It is the union that you crave. Desperately. Simply showing up on Sunday is not even close to worship. Neither does singing songs with religious content pass for worship. What counts is the posture of the soul involved, the open heart pouring forth its love toward God and communing with him.
Worship occurs when you say to God, with all your heart, “You are the One whom I desire.”
I spent a year in the Psalms at the time I was resting from the duty of Sunday morning, praying them from my heart. It gave me a voice for the cry of my soul-the anguish, the weariness, the joy, the sorrow. It’s all there. No matter where the poet begins, he almost always ends in worship. It is where your journey must lead you. Your only hope for rest from the incessant craving of your desire is in God, and you united to him. The full union, of course, is coming.
Find a worship song that you love, one that expresses your heart. Play it every day this week.
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