Tonight, as I was going my devotions, God really spoke to me. To be honest, I've gotten away from having my personal time with Him. And as a result, of course, I kinda fell apart. I've been overwhelmed with schoolwork that I should be doing, but being the procrastinator I am, I obviously have a lot to do tomorrow to finish up the second quarter of the year. I think it's so ironic that when we busy up our schedules too much, and we are being busy all the time, that's the time that we need Him the most, but that's the time that we push Him away the most. I think that if I would've been spending time with Him this week, I wouldn't be this far behind in school work. We pack our lives so incredibly full that we don't have time for Him, and as a result, things start to fall apart. And the sad thing to me is, that we go about our lives as if we're being really involved with God this week and we've been acting like we've been keeping Him really close, when in actuality, we've been pushing Him away. We put on these masks all the time when we're around friends at school, at church, and even sometimes at home. We appear to be doing really well, and that everything's alright, when we're really not. Sometimes we don't even know we're not alright, sometimes it's the "last straw" that makes us fall apart and realize we haven't been okay, that we've even put on a mask to ourselves!
At our youth group a month or two, my pastor showed us a music video that another youth group from Texas made. It's to the song Stained Glass Masquerade by Casting Crowns. It perfectly describes us! So many times, we go to church and "worship" God. Sure, we sing the songs and listen to the pastor preach, but do we truely mean the words we sing and do we truely listen to the words the pastor has to say to us? Or do we get so focused on the distractions of this world and forget to truely worship Him? Most of the , I think it's the ladder. And if so, we seriously need to change that!
Worship isn't just comming to church on Sunday morning and maybe Wednesday night group, don't get me wrong, it's the way you live your life every single day. It's when you wake up and decide you're going to live this day for Him. It's when you decide you're going to say something nice to your boss, even if he might be a jerk. It's when you decide to say no to the peer pressure that comes from school. It's saying no, that you're not going to look at those images on the computer, that you're going to keep your thoughts pure instead. Worship is when we live for Him, and truely honor living the way He wants you to live!
Are you TRUELY worhipping God with all that you are? I hope the answer is yes, but if not, why?
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