Elements of WorshipSample

The Tension

Adventurous worshipper, do you like to explore new places as I do? This has been an unprecedented year of travel for me. If you can believe it, I have had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be in Alaska and Israel within a month’s time! How could I compare the splendor of Glacier Bay National Park with mysteries of Old Jerusalem? Or a glimpse of the snow-covered precipices of Mt. Denali to the view of Jerusalem from the tiered gardens of the Mount of Olives? How could I compare boating the rapids of Susitna River to sailing on the Sea of Galilee? But I don’t need to compare them. Both are magnificent beyond description and accessible to anyone who decides to make the trip. And best of all, Holy Spirit led me into worship in each place.

Let’s now approach our worship response in the context of an exploratory, spacious “tension.” This is not the tension that comes from strain or opposition; it is the exciting potential of offering ourselves to God within untapped, expanding frontiers. Each day, let’s pair our potential worship responses as opposites, both biblically beautiful at their extremes and every point between; each pure and yielded. The potential for responding to our Father’s revelation of Himself is as limitless as points on a geometric line.

Holy Spirit, our Guide, our Delight, blow into the cobwebby corners of our worship expressions and spare nothing until we release the fragrant worship You desire and deserve (Song of Songs 4:16, TPT).

An Invitation

The Lord is the Good Teacher. He wants to expand our expressions of worship for His joy and ours. Search your heart for your deepest lack or longing in personal worship. With Holy Spirit’s encouragement write out and date that desire as a prayer and tuck it into a safe place as a “time capsule.” Mine is also dated and stored away. I join you now in faith that we will see these requests fulfilled in the season to come.