Worship

I think a lot about worship, having spent many hours leading "worship" services. Until I began to study, I believed I had a clue about what it really is. Worship, in the Scriptures, always tells of falling down before thing, be it God or something else. The Old Testament word tells of depressing yourself down to the ground, and the New Testament word tells of falling prostrate. It was interesting to me that nearly every time someone worshiped God in the Old Testament, it was a direct cause to something God had just done. God would give a victory in battle, cause a revival, or show His goodness in some way. One particular time in the scripture, a certain man did not worship in response to God's actions. In fact, he worshiped at a time of very little action on God's part.
Job was a good man that suddenly lost everything: his cattle, servants, and children. In the trying moments after this devastating loss Job "rent his mantle, shaved his head, fell down on the ground, and worshiped the LORD." He understood a certain truth about God. We like to make our worship conditional, choosing to worship when God blesses us or shows us His glory. Job truly understood God's sovereignty. "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
Let us pray this week that God would prove His sovereignty to us in such a way that we will worship His holy name with or without a "pie in the sky" life.