I want to give you a disclaimer. I’m a worship leader, and I want to tell you a little bit though about what worship is not. Worship is not music. Worship is not even necessarily going to church. Worship is not even just sitting in your living room with worship music on, right? Worship is a heart posture where you are saying, “Lord, you are the utmost of the utmost importance in my life, and I want to honor you in everything.” And that helps me bring worship into every area of my life. It actually makes me want to lead worship in every area of my life.
When I am leading people well in my company, that’s me worshiping the Lord. When I am committing to things that I’ve promised people, and actually devoting myself to that, or communicating well, that is actually to me an act of worship. I don’t want to do that out of my own human desire; I would rather blow people off or miss a deadline or something like that. But because I’ve agreed that my life is submitted to the Lord and because I want to be someone who makes Him proud, and is a person that, you know, I let my yes be yes and my no be no, then I actually see that me upholding those commitments as an act of worship.
I look at the way that I clean my house, you know, without missing like an area or letting things go. Like I look at that as an act of worship. “Do everything unto the Lord” is actually a scripture that’s in the Bible. And we don’t say that to kind of like try to make ourselves perfectionists or something. That’s not what I’m saying. But what I am saying is, are you doing things in a spirit of excellence where you’re like, “You know what, Lord? You are first in my life and what I’m doing here, if it’s dedicated to you, is going to be fragrance unto you.” Like me changing a dirty diaper can be worship if I’m doing it with the right heart, right? And so that is what worship actually is.
Worship is saying, “Lord, you are first in my life. So everything that I do in the day, I want to do it with a pure heart, and I want to do it with gratefulness to your name.” Everything that comes out of my mouth, I want it to be favorable. I want it to be a pleasing fragrance unto the Lord. Whether it’s the words that I’m speaking, the way that I’m speaking about people, the way that I’m speaking about things in my life, right? I want to be a person that just is a well of gratitude for what the Lord has placed in me. I want to be someone who emanates the fact that Holy Spirit lives in me, and I want the world to see that, right? And that is actually something that we are called to do as ministers of reconciliation on this earth, is to be such great worshipers on this planet that the world cannot help but see what He’s doing through us.
You know, in the Bible it talks about being a city on a hill, right? That’s a city to be bright with His light, so that all will see and look at what the Lord has done. That to me is worship, when I can live every area of my life so pleasing and so evident of what the Lord has done in me that others around me can’t help but see. And the Lord says, “I love this. This glorifies me,” because that is what it’s all about, is glorifying God.
So I bless you today to see the glory of God in everything, and to go after it and just to say, “Okay, if there’s areas of my life and of my heart that I’m not letting be fragrant with worship unto you, God, can you flesh those out? Can you actually show me how to make these worshipful unto you? And, what is your will in these areas?”