The Meaning and Purpose of Worship

Join me in welcoming, again, our own Jennifer Brown from LHCC Youth.  Today she teaches us about worship.  Take it away, Jenn…

In Merriam Webster the definition of worship as a verb is this: to honor or reverence as a divine being or supernatural power. When we worship God there is no right or wrong way to do so. The definition of worship is acknowledging God for who he is. This does not have to be done in just going to church and while singing, raising your hands because everyone else is. This can be done in your day to day life.

For example today I was struggling in photography class. I know some of this makes no sense but let’s just go with it for a second. So in photo class in the dark room while printing I kept my light settings two clicks to the dimmest and had my enlarger set up correctly, but when I put in my test strip it came out black but with borders. Meaning my paper’s fine. So I changed my light settings to dimmest. I had the same result. Now I’m not one for patience but something told me to calm myself when I began my third test strip. Frustrated, and upset for wasting photo paper I just said a small prayer. “God calm my heart, and give me patience with this test strip.” Right after this I got a good solid test strip. I smiled to myself and thought, thanks God for this small thing. You know I’m impatient, but once I went to you I calmed down and I can see how you work even in the small things.

The thing is that our worship to God shouldn’t be classified as something specific. We personally might know ways that we can worship him, but as a church family we need to all find ways to give our God the worship he desires from us. He is not like the Greek gods who needed to survive on worship, praise and prayer. God wants us to be a relationship with us, he is a jealous God.

In Revelation chapter six verse thirteen (NIV) we hear how the angels worship God. “Then I heard every creature in Heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them singing, ‘To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!’” In this verse we see the object being worshiped is God, the praise comes from everything on earth that is singing. But the honor, glory and power can be acknowledged by living our lives for Christ and being living sacrifices for him.