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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

What it really means to worship God

Hey, all you beautiful young women reading this blog!
 You are so amazing, and I'm not saying that just because you're reading this blog. Well, that has something to do with it, but it also has to do with the fact that you are a strong Christian young woman growing to be a great woman one day. You are beautiful.
 And thank God for that, because there is a lot of girls out there that are beautiful on the outside, but just one big, black chunk of coal on the inside.
 Anyways. The church that I go to has an awesome worship group. We have a bunch of guitarists and a couple drummers and quite a few singers. Only one pianist, but either way, my worship team rocks. I absolutely love their choice in music they play and I absolutely love the fact that when they play I feel like I can freely worship God how I want. And maybe that has to do with the fact that our church is small, and I know everyone in my church, so I really don't worry about what people think or anything.
 The church that I go to is inter-denominational. If you don't know what the heck that means, it means that we're not Catholic, or Methodist, or Lutheran, or Amish. We're just a bunch of Christians getting together to worship God and grow spiritually. So, our worship isn't just kneeling down on one of those kneeler-down thingies in cathedrals; our worship in our church is whatever you want to do. If you want to kneel down, you can. But we don't have one of those kneeler-down thingies, so you'll have to make do with the floor.
 Mostly our worship, though is raising your hands, singing along to the worship leader, sometimes jumping, or crying, or praying out loud. If you don't like it; well, I'm sorry. I do like it. I've grown up around people worshipping like that, and that's the kind of worship I want my children to grow up around.
 Worship to me is whatever you want it to be. It could be something average like singing in your church choir, or it could be you going out, sharing the love of Christ to a bunch of people in Africa.
 My ways of worshipping God are things like talking to Him every day, singing some awesome songs that He puts on my mind (or maybe they just get stuck in my head. Either way...) and just by doing little things like that. On Sundays when I go to church I worship Him by singing, clapping my hands, raising my hands, and sometimes wiping snotty noses and singing along to 'Jesus loves me' in the nursery.
 I think everyone has different ways to really worship God.
 What it really means to worship God is all in your heart. I think if you are in church one Sunday and your arms seem to feel like they now have helium in them, and they want to float to the top of the ceiling, it might be God encouraging you to lift 'em up.
 If you're at a Family Force 5 concert and you feel the urge to hit the floor and bust a couple moves for Him, it might just be God. Here's what Soul Glow Activatur has to say about all of worship:
"It's being able to get out there and dance and being able to let loose and worship God in a way that's crazier than normal. It's not just singing or raising your hands, its moshin' it's jumpin' up and down. It's your body. If your temple is this, get it going. Sweat it out a little bit for Jesus Christ...it's a lifestyle."
 Worship how you want. Sweating is all cool, if you want to go breakdancing on some cardboard go on ahead, I'll watch you make a fool of yourself. 
 But I really have to say that Soul Glow has it right. Let loose and worship Him. Man I wish I could have the right words to say like HE does...jeez, he just basically blew this whole entry out of the water. I really like that quote, as you can see. It's kind of hard to even think of anything else to say. Thanks A LOT, Soul Glow...you ruined my whole blog entry!!
 =D
Thanks for reading,
 ~Suzanna

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