Worship

What is worship?  How do we worship God?  Do we sing songs to Him, or do we listen to Romans 12:1 when it says to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to Him?  I believe that would mean that we need to stop lollygagging around in our everyday lives.  When we go home after work doesn't mean that our worship is done for the day.  Our worship continues from the moment that we wake up until the moment that we fall asleep.  And those early moments directly after waking and late moments directly before sleeping can be the hardest.  That is when our mind runs rampant and when we need to work harder than ever to tame our thoughts.  We need to take our thoughts captive, no matter how hard that is.  And it is hard, and we will fail at it.  But we need to work had at it so that we can eventually get more victories in a day that we do failures.  We need to walk through the day in a way that honors God and gives Him the glory that He deserves.  We aren't the most important thing out there, God is.  We can't let ourselves get in the way of Him working.  As Shaun Groves says, we need to let God work "in spite of us."  That is powerful stuff, and hard stuff, but we need to stinking do it.  I'm tired of people misunderstanding worship.  I'm sick of people misunderstanding what a Christian life is.  It's time for a change among Christians to start living out our Christian life every minute of every day because Christianity is so much more than a simple or complex belief, it is a stinking lifestyle.  A lifestyle that should run deep.  So lets change.  Let's live out the words of Matthew 22:37-39, love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mid.  Love your neighbor as yourself.
And don't forget to love and respect yourself.

And love and respect yourself because that is what God calls us to do, and He calls us to do it everyday, all day, no matter where we are.
(I like pictures of sun through leaves.  I took this one in Wengen, Switzerland.  Yay for Swiss leaves, Swiss Alps, and the Swiss sun!)