I was a young worship leader looking for that one sound, that one thing or that one song. I had a good budget and I had all of the resources pouring into my office every month. You know those stacks of CDs and charts that you get from worship together and all the clones that do the same thing. I would sift through all of this content and listen to every track, month after month.
I couldn’t find it. I was never stoked with anything I was hearing.
It hit me, not when I was up on a stage leading worship, but when I was in a room full of people that were worshiping their guts out. It was a song I had passed off as weak the first time I heard it, yet this room was ripe with passionate worship to the sound of that very song.
It wasn’t about the song, although some songs in and of themselves demand real worship, it was about the experience.
It always seems to be this way with God. We get caught up trying to figure out a recipe for spirituality and worship, when all along he wants us to tune into the experience.
“…I have come that you would have life to the full…”
{photo credit :: Taylor Hain }
Simply Stated…well said….can I get an Amen!
Great blog. I understand the felt need to make God fit the way we want and then we find that God is God and can work even when we think there is no hope of Him using some things. It is not what’s sung but the one to whom we sing. May God be praised.
I like your thoughts here Vince.
as humans, we want so badly to have an easy formula to follow…I think Jesus in all his quirkiness was trying to show us that there isn’t one
Amen Craig! Just Tune in…..wow!
Great post! I was blessed by this reminder!