What you fear is what you worship

What you fear is what you worship.

It's kinda odd having this statement. I saw this post retweeted by Joel Houston on twitter and it makes sense... it really makes sense... then here I am making a blog about it.

What are the things that frightens you? what are the situations that insinuates fear in your life?

The conundrum that you might be having in this statement is... how does fear can be connected to worship?

Most people when they hear the word fear, for them it simply means that there is something to be afraid of or to expect something worst.

Worship on the other hand is simply exalting, glorifying, praising, giving thanks to God.

Its very interesting that what we fear is the same thing on what we worship.

There are different kinds of fear, we have fear of snakes, dogs, insects, darkness, evil, etc...

But there's one thing that we as God's sons and daughters always misses. The bible tells us to remain only fearful to God, it also tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, another verse says may those who fear God, praise the Lord... to sum it all, its all about fearing God.

So does it mean we need to fear God because something worst will be given to us cause by Him...

a big "NO!"

you see, another definition of fear would be 'a reverential awe'

The bible wants us to be in reverence with God when we have this relationship thingy with Him.

God wants us to fear Him because God wants us to worship Him. ONLY to Him. and its simple as that.

God wants us to fear Him. God wants us to worship Him.

When we fear God, we also worship God.

The fear of the Lord doesn't make us weak but rather the fear of the Lord gives us wisdom, security, protection, healing, power, forgiveness,the right to live in His kingdom, the authority to shun evil, and the most important of all, it enables us to worship Him in spirit and in truth.

We are afraid to God because we respect Him, we love Him, we are His servants and He is our master.

I guess there is no need to explain further about this, its either you focus your fear to other things or you focus your fear only to God... If you believe God is the master and the creator of heaven and earth, then there's no way for you to be afraid of all the things in the earth. We just need to remember that we live in this world but not of this world.

We live for God.

So the next time you have this fear, always think, what you fear is what you worship.

It's tough to be a Worshiper

I’m part of the music ministry in our local church for almost 3 years now and I've already had my ups and down on being part of the said ministry. I started as a naive trainee, then passed the assessment stage, started as a back-up singer, slowly doing solos, became a worship leader in the youth service and kids church, I’ve also been asked to step down, and started singing again in the youth prayer meeting, and even form a band.

I just realized on how bless I am considering at first I didn't even know that God gave me the gift in music. But more importantly, I started to realize that I am so ashamed with God by blessing me with much and yet I'm not so serious about having a walk with Him.

Being a worshiper requires much, as others would say, If you're life ain't changing then you are not really walking with Him (God). Being a worshiper and leading worship in front of a congregation is not by having a double standard life but by having a genuine walk with God. It's a huge responsibility and it's a huge calling. ‘Till I came to a point where I asked myself, am I worthy to be on that stage, singing and leading in front of a congregation? Am I doing the things that will please God more rather than satisfy my own wants? Am I eager to learn more and get more training to enhance the gift that God had given me? Moreover, Am I a worshiper or just a plain performer?

It breaks my heart seeing other people not striving to please God in terms of their craft and remain, should I say stagnant on their own capacity, those people who would rather remain in a certain level and not having a will to enhance it and be more excellent, knowing that we are serving an excellent God.

It breaks my heart, when people would rather choose to plainly perform in front of the people and not in front of God.

It breaks my heart seeing other people who would rather please their own selves rather than pleasing God.

And finally it breaks my heart seeing that these things had become a part of me.

I'm always being reminded of these things and I genuinely like it coz it always reminds me to be humble.
Moreover, I really love God, though I am not perfect, and yes I am still weak, but God's grace is so sufficient to make me realized that with Him, with His righteousness I am made perfect in His sight. It's like imperfectly perfect.

As I've said being a worshiper requires a huge responsibility, you are responsible with your own life, you are responsible with your co-team members, you are responsible with the congregation and more importantly you are ought to be responsible in the eyes of God.

Now being a worshiper is by having a personal relationship with God that you are so sensitive enough to hear Him and to feel that He's the one leading and not you.

Let me end this by saying, We worship God because we ought to worship Him, we worship God because life without Him would be meaningless and we worship God because He loved us first that cause us to fall more deeply in love with Him without even asking what is it for me? But rather what do you want me to do for you? And we worship God because after all it’s all about Him.