We'll obviously this is late. A stomach virus has ravaged the Garcia home, thank God I'm fine, but everyone else was hit. However, that hasn't stopped me from moving ahead. I loved the devotion for Day 8. Especially about worship, Rick Warren says that worship is as natural as eating or drinking. All throughout history we encounter cultures that worship. Even when the state places sanctions against worship, people will hide and sneak and engage in subversive activities to worship.
I agree with Rick Warren, that we often confuse worship with singing, but worship is an state. We are in worship, worship is the lens through which you do things, the value that you give them. I often say that I don't work for my principal or my school, I work for God. All that I do, I do in an attempt to worship Him, weather it's speak to a parent or help a child or advocate for someone or complete paperwork, I do it to honor God.
How do you view worship? Isaiah 29:13 says "And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.[c]" God is looking for people that worship Him in their spirit throughout their everyday life. What does that mean, that means, thinking about God, praising Him, asking Him for direction and doing everything with the lens to honor God. In the Message, in Romans 12:1 it states "Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out."
So, what can you start doing today, as if you are doing it for Jesus?
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