Just a thought!

 True Worshippers are true listeners?

Can we worship with our minds disengaged from the process?

So much of worship in today’s system is an emotional cajoling of the conscience to frenzy.  Frenzy might be attached to worship at times, but it isn’t the core of worship, now is it?

Listening and agreeing with preaching might be a sober experience, but it isn’t worship either, is it?

We can sit in classes and learn much from a savvy educator.  We can emulate their motions and attend to their every word, but is this worship.  My mental ascent must be engaged and my emotions must be involved, but true worship is an amalgamation of infused real information received from an esteemed individual about the most esteemed Creator and Savior and acknowledging His grand superiority and sovereignty.  Yes, He is Almighty.  Some who are grand demand a curtsy or a bow.  Our hearts are arrested in humble confusion of whether His grandeur demands such an obeisance.  He doesn’t strike us down when we make the wrong gesture in His presence.  He has all power and all superiority and yet He is intimate with us. 

He stops His creating schedule to listen to our cries.  He accepts our miniscule efforts to ascribe glory to him in our culturally colored limpness.  We are indeed inept to attempt to lasso others into our accepted mores for our comfortability.  Still there is a commonality among all colors and cultures.  John was allowed to attend the worship of Heaven in the book of Revelation.  There were all colors represented.  It wasn’t a monolith.  Shouldn’t they all speak one language?  Shouldn’t they have melded into the grayness of intermingling?  Isn’t this what we have been socialized to believe in wokeness?  Only multigrained colorized intermingling is acceptable.  No one culture has a monopoly on the worship styles. Nothing historic is going to be accepted because of the sins of the fathers that is attached to it’s expressions.

I must say that when I read BB Warfield's expressions of  racism, I was tending to throw out all of the history of doctrine that I had imbibed and respected, because of its eloquence and prolificness.  “Throw it out!  They hated my ancestors. I have no time for it!”

What an insolent thought that was.  What we bind on earth and what we loose on earth will become useful for the victory that we are engaged in.  Jesus is the champion of using our biased expressions of study for His glory to subdue our sins and make us ONE Church. 

Lets become true listeners and true worshipers and true examples of the unified Church of Jesus.