When we come to worship, it must involve my will to be truly real. This, I believe was one of the core issues that Christ was attempting to make the Samaritan woman realize (John 4). Now, it's true that He was trying to get her to realize that worship is not tied to a location (Mt. Gerizim, where the Samaritans had built a temple) but to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. If my will is not involved, worship essentially doesn't happen. When I worship by myself (or lead worship in a church) I need to be engaged first before it ever impacts the pew. My question for myself (and you today) is, are you worshipping God? And is He pleased with our worship? Jesus wants us to drink from holy cisterns (I must confess sometimes I drink from the cisterns of the world and again and again find out they never satisfy)! One man said, "Jesus is the satisfaction of all of life's cravings." How true!
So worship, to be truly genuine, meaningful and transforming must involve at least these three: wonder, worth (the word, 'worship' comes from the Anglo-Saxon word, 'worthship') and the will. Am I truly allowing all three to be present in my life? As Steve Brown (on his radio program, "Key Life" says, 'you think about that. Amen').
Blessings!
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