Worship

Who but God deserves our worship?  The answer to that question is no one, but God.  That comes out in spending time with God, whether it's in quite times studying God's word, in prayer, through songs, poetry, or any form of writing. 

Praising God throughout every time in our lives is what God Has been trying to teach me recently.  Through reading the psalms.  In them David praises and prays to God in every and all circumstances, no matter how great or horrible his life seems to be going.  Even when David was going through the worst things in his life: hunted by Saul, trying to be killed by his enemies, sick and feeling near death.  It didn't matter what was going on in David's life.  He never stopped going to God for everything.  Talking to God about his hardships, and what he needed (no matter how small they may have seemed), and praising God for all the blessings He had given David.

What I've been realizing is that I need to have a faith more like this.  I need to go to God for everything.  Not just when it's convenient for me, but for everything and during everything.  I also need to praise, and worship, God in everything I do.  I'll leave you with a poem I wrote:

Fallen, broken down
No hope, no strength, no safety
Without, an eternal love

Alone, in the stifling black
Suffocating in its vastness
Until You pour Your light upon me

That, Loving Grace wraps around me
Rescuing, saving, freeing me
From my own damnation

Love Eternal, how You shine
Make my ways Yours
In worship of our God


TNT,
Words by Ali

An Observation

Something that I have noticed since I have started doing my quite times in the morning is that if I don't do it right away it's more likely to not happen.  Also the longer I wait in the day the smaller the chances that I will make the time to get it done.  Why is that?

The days that I start my day with my quite times, with God, impact the rest of my day.  And it is definitely for the better.  So, why than is it so much more difficult to do my quite times once my day has started?  You would think that I would do anything to spend that time with God, in His word, so that my day can change to reflect Him and His ways.

Yet I have noticed that my motivation to do my quite time lessens the longer that my day goes on.  It's crazy I know.  So, on the days I have class I get up at 5:30 so that I can spend some time with the Bible and with God.  It is super early in the morning, but those times with God are certainly more than worth it.

TNT,
Words by Ali