Yesterday has come and gone.  Sunday’s clock has ticked it away into a memory.  We are onto Monday, which will shortly be over too.

Yesterday people gathered in their churches and gatherings in order to hear instruction from the Bible, to fellowship, to serve, and to worship God.  Some would say they even came for the coffee and donuts…  Some don’t even know why they came.

Many of our worship gatherings were well thought out and planned by worship pastors and leaders.  They are well rehearsed and neatly packaged sections of our Sunday.

Here’s the deal though.  I think we all can agree that the singing portion of our morning isn’t the only part of worship.  If not check out Romans 12:1-2 and then let’s talk.  So my question is why do you worship?  How do you define worship?  Is it something that you do because a guy behind a guitar started singing?

Have you fallen into the worship trap?  The concept of ‘I’ll worship You when You pull through.’  I’ll give you my love, attention, sacrifice, and my life when I can see that you give a rip about me.  Well what about when it seems like God doesn’t give a rip about you.  Do you stop worshipping God?

This disturbs me: Exodus 4:31, “So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.”

See that?  It was quick.  It was one word, THEN.  Only after seeing that God gave a rip for them did they THEN worship Him!  This is unfortunately a trap that has not become outdated, extinct or uncommon.  Even though the Exodus of the Israelites was thousands of years before this moment, the concepts in this verse are no less familiar to me.

When is your worship the sweetest?

When is it the most intense?

When is it the most regular?

I wonder if we are really honest with ourselves how often do we put that one word, THEN, in our worship.  I’d like to call a vote to eliminate the word THEN from our worship vocabulary.

~Peter