What I Know About My God

Worship Old and New is completely full of information on worship, which, if I'm to be honest, I don't completely understand or retain all the time. But just in going over these three chapters and seeing how much there really is to worship, I'm blown away at how much underlies what we think is simple worship.

I've been convicted a couple of times lately, with the fact that I can talk like I know worship, and I can assume there isn't much more to learn..but I know absolutely nothing. The foundation of worship, the meaning, the purpose, I can grasp, but knowing the in's and out's of each different denomination and style is so important. How can I really know what worship I am leading, or really understand the position of people in the church if I don't know the origins and characteristics.
                                         I don't know what I'm talking about.

"My son, if you accept my words

    and store up my commands within you,

turning your ear to wisdom

    and applying your heart to understanding—

indeed, if you call out for insight

    and cry aloud for understanding,

and if you look for it as for silver

    and search for it as for hidden treasure,

then you will understand the fear of the Lord

    and find the knowledge of God.

For the Lord gives wisdom;

    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding."

                                    ~Proverbs  2:1-6

Laramie

"Come, I will show you"

       I don't think I've ever thought about the thought-process of Jesus regarding the transformation of worship in the New Testament... 

                             He literally came to turn it upside down.

       There was a new form of worship for the Israelites, as well as the rest of the world, and it was His walk and journey to the cross that was going to bring it to life. 

       In the second chapter of Worship Old and New, Webber addresses the fact that Jesus knew that He "superseded the Old Testament institutions of worship...He was greater than the temple and rendered its rituals obsolete." Can you imagine His thoughts..."I'm going to completely change the way they see Me, I'm going to transform the way they love Him, I'm going to create a new worship." I mean really. 

       I am just blown away by the steps of Christ, being fully human and fully God. He lived a completely flawless life-as a human. And He changed the way we approach the Lord. He changed how and why we do what we do in worship to our King. 

       When comparing Old Testament worship to New Testament worship, Webber says that "New Testament worship proclaims the story of the second Exodus- Christ's leading His people out of bondage to sin."

Let Him show you. Let Him lead you out of bondage.

"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
                                        John 4:23-24

~Laramie