Worship (Day 8 of #30daysoflittlethings Challenge)

Worship is such a beautiful thing. It is a time where you can surrender yourself and allow yourself to be vulnerable. It's a place where you are in the presence of God and lifting up praises to him. Music isn't the only way you can worship God, but I am definitely thankful I am able to worship him through it.

As I have written before, I adore music. So this touches home for me. I lead worship at my church which is one of the best things in the world. I love doing it. What I pray for every time we go into worship, is that I will glorify God with everything I have. That I will give back to him with the talents he has blessed me with, and that I will help lead the people into worshiping God with abandon.

There can be times sadly, where I can take it for granted. Where I can see it as just another time to bang on the keyboard, or to sing into the mic for everyone to hear, and I will forget to even think about what the words are saying. That is not what it should be. I need to be able to lead the people where they don't even notice me, but that they notice and feel close to God. But there are also times where I even forget that I am up there. I will end up bouncing up and down, swaying back and forth. I will squeeze my eyes shut or look up to the ceiling trying to control myself from crying. My throat will burn, I will have a ginormous grin on my face and I will just want to ditch the keys so that I can lift my hands up.

All of this, is because I feel SO close to Jesus. Having those feelings, is so overwhelming, but it is so beautiful and I love every second of it. I am thankful for those moments where I feel overwhelmed by Gods goodness, and where I acknowledge the fact that I'm not on stage leading worship for myself or to make myself look good. But to help people see God through the music so that they can feel closer to God as well.

So I am thankful for worship, and it's ability to draw me closer to Christ.