Worship?
Worship?What do we musicans define worship? The standard explanation holds of course, but what do we, as musicans think of our music in worship? The Bible holds many records of musicians being involved in praise and worship, take for instance David, who was a skilled musician, not to mention the sons of Asaph, and all the rest. Even Lucifer was so instrumental in woship in heaven before he.. well... but then, thats another story altogether - one that still is very much important to musicians, worldwide.
Be as it may, I was made to realize something that we dont often think about - when people worship and we play, according to Lucado, we give something that is verydear to us to the Lord, and as musicians, what better than the skills and talents He's given each one of us? As such, our music is our worship in one sense [we give God something we love most of all, something which we are so very grateful to Him for] and ofcourse, in another sense, music is NOT worship - that is to say, our time of worship doesn't stop with just music, it's about involvement also.
That said, worship thus becomes our offering. And its that offering I want to talk to you about. Most of us play music and ofcourse, we try to give our best when it comes to playing for the Lord - some of us are just about good for that only most of the time - witness my mom, dad, aunt and brother back home... but how many of us practise? Remember Cain and Abel? God accepted Abel's offering because he brought the best to the Lord whereas Cain's was not accepted. The same way, music is one of our offerings - we need ot give our best. Playing the same thing overand overand over and over again constitues what you co9uld call a stale offering. And when we as a church or a congregation or even a corporate body sue it for worship, don't you find it sad that thanks to you and me, the worship becomes stale???
Please note that I'm not saying practise is more important than the spirit of worship - God won't be pleased with your offering if you forget or disregard the fundamentals, ie, putting your music before worship - if that were the case, you and I don't have any place considering the sheer number of professionals around. But then, we need to strive to do our part too...
I know some of you can argue persuasively, but I just realized something. When the master gave the talents to his servants, he expected them to add to them. Ofcourse, he gave them according to what they could handle. He gives them 50 or 100 instead of 5 and 2 and my bet is they'd have jumped on their newly bought horses and gone to some other faraway country. What I am hinting about here is to work those 5, 2 or even that one little talent that you have been given - note, its not that one little talent you have got. Work those, and God gives you more. His desire has always been to give us more and more of His riches and glory, but there areobvious reasons why He doesnt scatter all His riches on us right away - we can't hide from Him, but only He knows what else we would do with His riches.
But the truth remains: The more effort you put in toward your talents, the more you recieve ultimatelty.
Here's where it gets better. All this isn't for the music heads only. There's something in here for you also, no matter whether you're a part fo the congregation or even the worship leader. And again, the answer to practise lies in His hands also, and thus in yours. Didn't He say, ask of me, and you shall receieve? You may remember, I did ask, and receieve, I did too? Now why don't you try that out??
posted by Finney @ 2:11 PM
1 Comments:
Exactly..the same is expected in our lives too..to ask the Lord to create a new heart always..Break it for Him..
HE desires a "broken and contrite Spirit"..whoever it be ..Musician or singer or worship leader or the greatest of Apostles!!
Go on...
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