Worship (3)
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As we study worship I would be amiss if we didn’t looks at
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Many people think they God somehow rides the waves our music and which springs him into action. When people state this it gives me a sense of a Bob Marley concert. Music playing, everyone high as a kite, provoking people to “feel the music” Which really means dance despite not knowing how to.
We must understand that God is whole and complete, therefore anything we do is more for us than for God. We praise God and we worship God, however it isn’t for God’s benefit. He isn’t sleeping until we sing like an off key alarm clock. Our voices do not activate the Spirit like yeast activates the growth of bread.
Worship centers us
Like a good alignment puts your car where it needs to be worship helps us to focus. We are created in such a way to, not only enjoy music, but often times we remember music more than words.
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Is Jesus on the cross. Bearing our sins, crying out to God Why have you forsaken me? I believe, God hadn’t abandoned Jesus, Jesus was feeling the seperation caused by sin and in this psalm is reminding us that the return to truth is essential to battle sin and stay within the presence of God.
Last week we talked about worshiping God in Spirit and truth. Worship isn’t just words, but rather it is singing the truth we know about God.
We could take a song and speak it. It could hold the same power if it holds to the truth of God, but would it have the same affect?
I would argue no, nit because the words have changed, but because we are more likely to allow our brains to wonder off in speach than we are in song.
Look at two different battle fields with two different stratagies.
And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.
When they began to set their mind on God and his truth-the Lord set and ambush. Their voices didn’t move God. But aligning their heart with God’s allowed them to see God move before they messed it up. When we are focused on the things around us we are more likely to meddle in things that God has already planned out. But when we are focused on God we are more likely to wait for him to move and we are more likely to see his movements. Not because we activated it, just simply because we aligned ourselves in a plave with a better view.
Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
Jesus declared the battle. He was going to make sure his eyes were on God’s plan not His fleshes. Jesus went and prayed. The disciples
And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?
It is scientifically proven that music engages more of the brain and helps us to focus. What was the outcome:
Jesus focused, surrendered himself to the will of the father.
The disciples unfocused and rested cut off a guards ear. Ones working God’s plan because he God focused the other is working flesh plan because he was flesh focused.
We cannot add or subtract from who God is but focusing on God helps us to win battles, not because it moves God, but because it stills us.
There is something inherent in the act of worship that enables us to encounter the power of God like nothing else. It is not effective to simply tell someone to stop worrying; stop being proud; stop being self-consumed, distracted, insecure, bound and materialistic. But it is effective to tell them to start worshiping. When we make that decision to fix our eyes on Jesus, we quickly realize that God has already begun to release the grip these tendencies can have on our lives.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.
What is this new song?
Truth/ Devotion to God
The Lord put truth in our heart and it comes out in the form of music. It’s why we are very careful about the songs we sing here in church. A song can be catchy, but not truthful and will have no affect on your Spiritual focus.
Worship isn’t about what we are singing; it’s about what our singing causes us to focus on.
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
Which is David’s
Romans 8:28 All things work together for the good of those who trust God.