Worship

So lately my class has been experiencing quite the explosion of worship. Our worship times have been so grand, so unified, so powerful, so deep it's been such a season. Thoughts like the church needs this constantly enter my mind.
We are in a place where we have become family, and as family it doesn't matter how silly we look, we love. So we've been dancing, jumping, shouting, spinning, and enjoying the breakthroughs day in and day out as a class. I will miss these times when school gets out and will long for a similar or greater experience in times ahead wherever I end up. We were made for this. To enjoy God, to be enjoyed, to have fun and forget about life's worries and weights. We were made to fix our eyes on Jesus, to be family, to love and be loved. That's who we are as the body of Christ.

Often when I'm in a setting of worship I only think one thing, "If only this lasted forever." Problems are minimalized during worship. My experience of God is enhanced. My relationship with Him seems so easy. Troubles, tempatations, and woes become an afterthought. There is a lifestyle of worship and I want it. I need it. There is no living without it, there is only a zig zag life not moving forward at all.

Today I was reminded of that when I had 3 stressful things pile on me all at once. I lost my peace quickly. My mind could only think, "what's the next miserable thing that's gonna happen. I'll probably get a speeding ticket, crash my car, hit my head or lose my wallet." It was a wake up call to see how fragile my peace was. Oh, that my heart would be so His that these things are nothing compared to the matchless name of Jesus my hero, savior, friend. I hope to win my next stress test. hahahaha...

Ps. 29:2 - "Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness."