titles.

People seem to be obsessed with titles now-a-days.  Maybe it has always been an issue with man-kind; if you go back to Adam & Eve, the fall of man had to do with a title...  You see with a title comes power, and all throughout history, from Adam to Brutus, who betrayed his own friend Julius Caesar for Rome, to average Americans of today, everyone wants just a little more power, a little more control over there situations.  Titles give us a sense of power, that inner desire to feel important among our peers.  Many times it seems we give ourselves titles that we don't even deserve.  Just think of a title of a book or a song.  What would you think if you saw a title that read "Sally Goes to the Park" (lol that's all i could come up with!) and then you went to read the book, and it talked about a guy named Billy who wanted to be an astronaut??  It's the same way with people and mainly Christians.  They give themselves that title, and then go around cussing and acting exactly the opposite of how Jesus called us to live!  But that's beside the point!  You see titles are something that we don't give ourselves, rather they are something someone from the outside gives us.  Titles should be given by someone other than ourselves...

"we are Hosea's wife, we are squandering this life using people like ladders and words like knives.  but if we've eyes to see and if we've ears to hear, to find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near.  shed that shallow skin, come and live again.  leave all you were before, to believe is to begin"--Brooke Fraser, Hosea's Wife

Worship.

To first understand worship, we must realize that we live to worship.  Every part of our daily life is worship.  We eat, sleep, and speak worship; however, the problem is most of us only think of worship as the first thirty minutes of church service in which the singer on stage who looks hideous in the first place can’t sing and the electric guitar player is off key and the worship leader isn’t doing our favorite songs.  You know what i am talking about!  (It seems everybody is a critic!)  The fact is worship is a complete 360 degrees from that view!

Worship means worth-ship, to place worth on God. It is not about what we want or how we feel worship should go!  Our worship must move beyond just words and music and become something we truly believe—it must become our lifestyle.  Worship is an expression of love and thankfulness to God to show that he is worthy.  We can’t confine it to just a Sunday and Wednesday service.  Whether we like it or not, we are constantly worshipping 24/7; the problem is that we are not always worshipping God.  You worship God by what you watch, what you say, by your attitude, and the list goes on and on. 

Many people, including myself, in the Church worship people in authority and some worship money! The key is once you realize that worship is our daily expression of our inner being, of our heart, we can turn all that focus and attention to God, who is the only reason we were created to worship.  When we truly lay down our flesh and really worship Him, we move into a place where we see glimpses of His true nature and glory.  As Christians we tend to make worship about our healing and what we need from God which is flat out wrong.  When we truly worship God, placing the worth and glory on Him, instead of focusing on our own needs, that is when amazing things start to happen; that's when blind men began to see, when cancer begins to disappear, and God begins to work in us!  If we will just set aside our motives and cares and solely focus our attention on Him, He will take care of all those details. 

In worship, God begins to bring revelation to you and a relationship begins to form.  Understand that relationship doesn’t happen without worship.  So many times we belittle worship to lifting our hands or falling down on the floor, and don’t get me wrong, those things are absolutely needed because they are signs of surrender and reverence to Him, but we must realize worship goes so much further past that.  Worship is a verb!  It’s an action that we do constantly!  Because of that we must daily align our hearts with God and ask ourselves daily if we truly worshipped the Father through our work, our attitude and what we spoke!