Really the title of this post should be more along the lines of How to Incorporate Personal Worship Into Your Everyday, but that's lengthy, it wouldn't flow with the whole part one thing, and I just don't have it together right now!! Sheesh. I sink in grace! Did you catch yesterday's Listology part 1? The moments spent worshipping our Daddy are the moments that most renew and refocus our living.
Worship in my pastor's words: "glorify=doxa--to live with a proper opinion or estimation of His worth." I love this. A proper opinion. Lord knows we all have some opinions, but how many of them are proper? He went on to add, "Personal worship then becomes a life line of focus, purpose and personal worth TO God." Here's what I and some others do to incorporate worship into the everyday:
1. Be thankful for the little things.
2. Jam for Jesus while driving in the car.
3. Reflect His character through responses, decisions, and conversations.
4. Spend time serving other people.
5. Use the time the kids are playing outside to pray.
6. Have praise music playing while doing household chores.
7. Do what I don't like with an attitude of love toward Him.
8. Stop. Think about His character. Smile in delight with who He is.
9. Love His Word.
10. Simply talk with Him -- randomly and all day long.
Simple, but practical. Known, but maybe not practiced. There are thousands of other ways to worship because true worship is: ANY true acknowledgement to our Father in a reverent way; allowing Him to become more real by listening to Him, talking with Him, and singing to Him; a state of mind, a way of life, a focused living. Every human worships. What we worship makes all the difference.
Allow this short list of ideas to be a simple spring board to begin or return you to a life of worship. We are most fully alive while worshipping Him because we were created to know Him and make him known.
Will you share how personal worship looks for you or any thoughts you may have on the subject?
TO THOSE FEW WHO SHARED THEIR FAVORITE WAYS OF PERSONAL WORSHIP: Thank you for being willing and for encouraging and inspiring each of us reading!