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Putting God and Worship in our own boxesPosted by Rachel on June 7th, 2010

I get very tired of people’s notions that worship is about self-gratification. Worship is about worshiping God. It’s not really about what songs uplift us, what styles suit our tastes, what seems more progressive, traditional, contemporary, fill-in-the-blank. Worship is about God. I know it’s also kind of about us because we are His children and we are the ones worshiping Him. But it’s only about us bringing Him glory and Him condescending enough to actually respond to our worship and communicate His love, in turn, to us. It’s about us because it’s about relationship, yes. But our relationship with Him is about praising Him for eternity.

God is the King of kings, the Creator of the Universe. We’re tiny and insignificant. And yet we try to fit Him into our boxes of what we’d like God to be. We’d like Him to be nicer, so poof, in our minds, He’s nicer now. We’d like Him to be more tolerant, so we go to a church where the pastor paints a picture of a tolerant God in his sermons. Sometimes we’d like Him to be a democrat, maybe a republican; whatever we are, really, will do. Whatever we like. That’s who our God is. Whatever makes us comfortable. Whatever makes our friends comfortable.

But we aren’t supposed to fit God into our lives. He was merciful enough to fit us into His plan. So we should get over ourselves and fall down at His feet. And we should spend less time complaining about worship styles unless our complaint is that our worship is not biblical or glorifying to God. Because that, really, should be our concern.

I do hope this doesn’t come off in an irritated tone, because I am not irritated. Just emphatic.