"Worship"

"I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah." (Psalms 143:6)

  This is the third point, worship, that is what we were made for, and what we do best: to worship the One that created us! When people think of worship, they automatically think of singing or what we do before message is given at church. But the most important part of worship is for us to want God's presence to shine upon us; whatever it takes for that to happen, worship is us wanting to draw close to God. Interesting thing, but thirsty reminds me of when Jesus spoke with the woman at the well, from John 4:4-42, as He needed to go through Samaria on His way to Galilee. The thirst that Jesus talked to her about, He said that the water from the well could not compare to the water that He could give to her, calling it, "Living Water." If you think about what happens to water that falls upon thirsty land, that it dries up quickly and is absorbed into the soil. Worship is very similar to that, in that by singing, we get saturated in God's presence, and then we walk away sometimes feeing drained, as if we need more and more worship. Living Water is what takes us out beyond our own personal experience and lets us experience true worship, which is to share the experience that we have with God; which is what the Samaritan woman did, as she ran back down to share the conversation she had with Jesus. I know it might not be something that everyone feels called to do, but if you really want to experience what true worship feels like, sharing your relationship with Jesus is better than singing any day of the week. Jesus made that point to His disciples, saying, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." There is nothing more satisfying than to share the Good News and to have someone receive it; it is pretty much the opposite of what happens to water on a thirsty land. It is actually more like water the comes up from out of the soil...

"Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirst land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." (Isaiah 35:4-7)