So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. -Romans 12:1-2 (The Message)
Have you worshipped today? Mark Roberts says worship is “our response to God, in which we offer God our praise, adoration, gratitude, and most of all, ourselves.” This is one of several definitions of worship we learned in a Seminary class on the topic. I like this definition because I see throughout Scripture in connection with giving ourselves.
Worship is not something we do on Sunday mornings when we come to this building at 555 Tallowood. Certainly, we worship here, but worship should not end when we walk out the door Sunday morning. When we love God with all our heart, soul and mind and strength, we worship here, at home, at work, when we are exercising, when we are on vacation… When we love God with our all, we worship God all the time.
That’s something to think about. If this sounds familiar, yes, Dr. Brook’s did preach on the subject Sunday. If you missed it, listen online. The subject is worth repeating. If you are interested in a little more study in Scripture, check out the following verses courtesy of my Seminary notes.
Genesis 4:3-16
Genesis 12:1-8; 22:1-14
Genesis 36:24-25
Genesis 28:10-22; 35:1-7, 14-15
Exodus 3:1-12; 4:29-31
Exodus 14:29-31; 15:1-21
Exodus 19:3-25; 20:1-11, 22-24
Exodus 23:13-17, 20-25, 32-33; 24:1-18
Exodus 29:38-46
Exodus 32:1-25
Leviticus 1-9
Deuteronomy 6:4-15
Deuteronomy 7:1-6; 8:10-20; 12:1-7
Deuteronomy 29:16-18, 24-26; 31:30-32, 43
Psalms 29, 30, 33
Psalms 42, 46, 47, 48, 63
Psalms 84, 92, 95, 96, 98
Psalms 103, 111, 136, 145, 150
Isaiah 1:2-4, 10, 18
Jeremiah 10:1-6
Daniel 3:1-4:3
Amos 5:1-24
Zephaniah 2:8-11; 3:17-19
Malachi 1:1-14
Matthew 2:1-11
Matthew 14:25-33
Matthew 28:16-20
Mark 7:1-8
Luke 1:45-55
Luke 1:67-79
Luke 2:13-14 and Hebrews 1:6
Luke 2 25-32
Luke 4:1-8
Luke 4: 14-20
Acts 2:42
Romans 1:21-25
Romans 12:1-2
Romans 15:5-6
I Corinthians 11:17-34
I Corinthians 14:26-40
Philippians 2:1-11
Colossians 2:18-23
I Timothy 2:1-10
Hebrews 12:28-29
Hebrews 13:15
I Peter 2:4-9
I John 5:18-21
Revelation 4:1-11
Revelation 5:1-14
Revelation 7:9-17
Revelation 11:15-17
Revelation 13:1, 5-8; 14:9-11
Revelation 14:6-7
Revelation 22:8-9