An amazing shift happens at some point on Sunday mornings at church for many people. Although they claim to come to church to worship God, they end up asking God to worship them!
"Wait, Kevin, you have gone too far. You cannot actually imply that we, as mere creatures, ask God to worship us?"
Yes I do. When we worship God we honor, love, adore and serve God, among other things. Most of the songs we sing focus in on us doing that very thing. But what we expect out of our experience is that God would (now listen carefully here to your own prayers) love us, and honor us by showing up, and serve us by doing what we ask. We have flipped worship upside down and and made ourselves the object of Sunday morning. The more we focus on ourselves as we enter into Sunday Morning community worship, the more we desire God to (careful here!) worship us. It is subtle, but very real.
I would invite you to start looking toward your community worship experience this week and prepare to worship by putting your focus on who God is, not on what you want God to do for you. It will be difficult because we have not been trained to think this way. But we are not the creator, we are the creatures. Let us worship God and not the other way around.
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