Songs of Worship
I don’t know about you, but I love that we’re living in a day and time when so many people are drawn to worship, where there are so many incredible worship songs being written and sung.
Turn on your local Christian radio station and you’re not just going to hear songs about faith and the love of God, you’re going to hear songs of worship.
Open Spotify or Apple Music and you’ll quickly find some of the most incredible worship music to carry you through your day.
Come to church on Sunday and you’ll be able to join in with other believers in Jesus and with the worship of heaven that never ends singing songs about God, for God, to God.
Songs that confess our need for God… Lord I need you, O I need you. Every hour I need you. All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give.
Worship songs that usher into the presence of the greatness of God as we sing… How great is our God.
Those songs of worship that say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, the One who is Mighty to Save, our Waymaker, Miracle worker, promise keeper, Our God who is an Awesome God, who’s love never fails, never gives up, the One who is the King of my heart.
We bring these songs to God. These songs of worship remind us of who God is and all He has done for us in and through Jesus.
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEzaEc_lBF4[/embedyt]At the Heart of Worship
But what’s at the heart of your worship?
In the days before Jesus came from heaven to earth, there was a prophet of God by the name of Micah who was wrestling with a similar question.
When it comes down to it, we may find ourselves asking the same question Micah was asking as he considered all God had done in his own time:
What can we bring to the Lord?
Should we bring him burnt offerings?
Should we bow before God Most High
with offerings of yearling calves?
Should we offer him thousands of rams
and ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Should we sacrifice our firstborn children
to pay for our sins?
In other words, what can we possibly give God in response to what He has given us?
What’s amazing is that Micah was living in a day and time BEFORE Jesus came. He was living on the other side of the cross. And he was still in awe and wonder at the faithfulness of God, the love of God.
Here’s where Micah landed as he wrestled with this question of how to respond to the love of God, of what is at the heart of worship…
No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good,
and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.
– Micah 6.6-8
The Question
It’s a good question, what’s at the heart of worship for you?
I hope the answer to that question for you is to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. When you do, as you do, you offer God more than a song. You offer him your life as a sacrifice of praise.
But maybe a better question is this…
What is at the heart of worship for God?
And don’t miss this, at the heart of worship for God is walking with you!
Just like God walked with Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden before sin entered the picture God longs to walk with you. So much so that Jesus entered the story, He came to live and dwell among us.
He endured the cross. He died and He rose again. And then He ascended to Heaven so you could know that relationship with God is possible.
Fellowship with God is God’s greatest desire for us.
Walking with God in humility by faith… this is the heart of worship.
Because at the heart of worship for God is God’s heart for you.
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