Psalm 100
When I first set out on this particular journey I wasn't sure how it would go, but I think that by and large it has gone fairly well. There have been more times where I have shared song lyrics from my previous Psalm journey than I originally intended there to be and while we have this moment I would like to explain the reasons why. First, this has occasionally happened when I was falling behind time and it was simpler to share lyrics that have already been written than to come up with new original content, for those times I apologize. Second, it has happened because I only have so much to say about worship and while I didn't really think about it the last time through the Psalms I have definitely noticed that a lot of Psalms are about worshipping God. Don't get me wrong worshipping God is something of extreme importance for anyone who has faith, but I only have so much to say about the actual act of worship beyond "worshipping God is something of extreme importance for anyone who has faith."
Perhaps if I were a worship pastor I would have more to say, or perhaps that is merely a cop out, the truth is that I am able to worship God better in the sanctuary of a state park than I am in the middle of the sanctuary. I am more easily able to capture how I feel about God when I come up with my own words and thoughts and feelings than I am when I am repeating the words thoughts and feelings of someone else. This may be a by-product of spending way to much time thinking about God and the theological incongruities in way too many worship songs. Because of that I tend to lean toward songs that are not "worship songs" for my own worship, songs of action or introspection or struggle where God is intrinsically tied into "real life," the more ethereal songs only work for me if I am in the right frame of mind.
I guess the whole point of this is to say that we don't all worship the same way, and that's all right. If the section of a church service where you sing songs is the most meaningful to you, that is great, and if you prefer the prayer time or the sermon time or the time of dismissal that is also fine. If you are brought closer to God in a church or the middle of a forest or in a snow storm or in your car is not what is important, what is important is that you find that place where you are brought close to God. In retrospect I may have more to say than "worshipping God is something of extreme importance for anyone who has faith."
+ Where do you worship God best? When do you? How do you?
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