Worship

Worship can take many forms

It is oftentimes the most pleasurable experience that we are able to have. Melting under His glory and tangible love is a place where heaven meets earth.

Today I want to talk about the kind of worship that brings you to your knees, the kind of worship that makes you cry out for mercy. The kind of worship that presses you hard on all sides. The kind that you don't know how much more you can bare.

This kind of worship is laying down your life before the Lord. This kind of worship is willingly turning towards the fire that purges you of anything standing in between loving Him with more of yourself.

This kind of worship is knowing there is nothing else but Him. That there is no where you can turn to escape His mercy and love. That the only way out is through the fire.

It's coming face to face and toe to toe with love Himself & knowing you are a slave to Him. You are a slave to this love.

Knowing that you will do anything He asks if you because He holds all that you are tenderly in His hand. His grip is like a stream through a dry wasteland, it's breath in your lungs, it's like honey on your lips. There is nothing else but Him.

It's knowing that you have to die and allowing Him to strip you bare layer by layer until you are completely undone and powerless before Him.

It's crying out because dying to our flesh hurts but then locking eyes on Him and knowing there is nothing else you could possibly do but burn for Him.

It's the maturity of knowing that deep in your firey trial even when you can't sense His smile or feel His glory, that the incense your flesh burning gives off pleases Him more than any song ever could.

This kind of worship is Jesus sweating blood asking not to drink the cup of suffering but telling the Father "Your will not Mine".

This kind of worship is biting your tongue so hard it bleeds & then turning to Him to nurse your wounds instead of lashing out on those who persecute you.

This kind of worship is going straight into the boxing ring with Goliath with the willingness to die for the cause which is to glorify His name and make Him known. It's the blood and bruises you receive while turning the other cheek knowing full well nothing is worth losing your witness for Him. It's knowing the battle is won with love & His heart swells for the lost. It's knowing you have a job to do and it has nothing to do with your comfort.

This kind of worship is standing alone and allowing others to ridicule you, judge you and persecute you for honoring Him and His name. This kind of worship leads you to love them fiercely anyways.

This kind of worship strips you of all pride and allows you eyes that truly sees your sin & how it breaks His heart. It then allows you to lay it all down at the foot of cross knowing that we need Him living through us to overcome it.

It's realizing our desperate need for Him in all we do & trusting Him enough to be compeltely dependent on Him.

This kind of worship strips you of all masks you put on for the world and makes you completely transparent before Him.

This worship is removing all walls trusting the King enough to look at you striped down completely naked without hiding like Adam and Eve did in the garden.

This worship is raw

This worship doesn't feel pleasant

This worship breaks you

But this is the kind of self sacrifice & poured our life we are each called to live.

This is the kind of worship that births Christ in full inside of you.

This is the kind of worship that brings heaven down & creates a vessel fit for use.

Worship can take many forms.

Let the incense of your pedals burning in the refiners fire arise to Him & give Him the pleasure of molding you into a vessel fit for glory.

This kind of worship makes hell tremble.