Worship?

This week in my devotional time, I happened across an excerpt from William Law’s A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life…

“One who makes it a rule to be content in every part and accident of life because it comes from God praises God in a much higher manner than one who has some set time for the singing of the psalms.”

“The person who dares not say an ill-natured word or do an unreasonable thing because he or she considers God as everywhere present performs a better devotion than the person who dares not miss church.”

“To live in the world as a stranger and a pilgrim, using all its enjoyments as if we used them not, making all our actions as so many steps toward a better life, is offering a better sacrifice to God than any forms of holy and heavenly prayers.”

William Law is striking a cord at the heart of Christian worship… It’s not about style. It’s not about a religious checklist. It’s not about hearing a good sermon or singing good songs. It’s not about feeling good or feeling convicted. It’s about minute by minute living for Jesus Christ. Worship happens on Sunday morning, but it is at the same time much bigger than Sunday morning. Or as one preacher said—the validity of our worship depends on what happens when we leave the church. Praying ceaselessly, giving thanks continuously, seeking the purer life of love and peace… these bring us to greater and better living and more effective witness to the world. “Thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads un in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.” (2 Cor. 2.14)

Let us give thanks to God for the worship that happens in our lives, every part of it.

God bless,
JON