At our church, we love to sing a song called “The Reason.”
Some of the most poignant lines are these:
Everything that I have, all my worship I bring
You’re the reason I live
You’re the reason I sing
As we sang this song recently, I thought about those lyrics, and what they might mean to the ones singing them. I thought about the fact that worship is something we can all bring – we don’t all have the same gifts, skills, and resources, but we can all bring our worship to Him.
But what does it mean to “bring all our worship?” Jesus said, “…true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship him” (John 4:23).
Worship is a heart speaking its full surrender to the Father.
Worship means giving him our devotion, our very hearts.
Worship is the adoration of One greater than ourselves, and our submission to him.
.
So, worship is something we can all bring, but do we? Do we offer our hearts, our minds, our lives, in this way? Hebrews 13:15 says, “Through him then let us continually off up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.”
“Praise” itself demands a sacrifice. True worship requires a laying down of our will to his, our pride to his glory, our dreams to his plans for us.
I hope we can say together, “All my worship I bring.”
Michelle Dowdy