"Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
What is God's will? How do we do His will? If God is all-powerful, won't His will be done regardless of our actions? In worship, it is God's will that His people worship Him faithfully, honoring His name as holy, being the Kingdom, worshiping in Spirit and in Truth, singing New Songs, singing Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, worshiping the Lord with gladness, worshiping Him with loud cymbals and stringed instruments, with trumpets, with our voices, with our whole beings (with run-on sentences).
Most of all, it is God's will that we worship Him with our lives; "Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship." (Romans 12) This may be the clearest instruction of how to worship in all the Scriptures. Worship of the Almighty is more than a song. Again I say to you that our lives are demanded to be faithful worshipers as citizens of God's Kingdom.
How can we worship with a song if we do not first worship with our lives?
God's Will? John 6:38-40 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." Christ is quite clear as to what His Father's will was for Him. If we are to be conformed to Jesus' image and in being conformed, exalt the Father as He did, then our worship should (and will) point others to the Way of salvation through Christ Jesus. This is a natural occurrence that we do not have to force when we worship faithfully. This is because faithful worship lifts high the Name of Jesus and the Truth of His life of love.
Until every knee bows, let us not be silent. And if the rocks cry out, let us sing even still! Amen and amen.
Grace and Peace,
Joel
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- I serve as worship pastor to Cedar Heights Church in Morgan, AR. While this blog is mostly about worship, it should be known that the views written here are not necessarily the same as those held by Cedar Heights Church.
3 comments:
Hey Joel... It's me Joe (Michael's Cousin).
Loved thsi post. Every time I think of "doing" God's will I think of Esther. Mordecai sent back these words, "Do not think that because you are in the kings house that you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise from another place..."
But then I also think that scripture teaches us a way of simply "being" in God's will rather than thinking in terms of "doing".
Amen and Amen
Thanks for that. Reading it was a good way to start my day.
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