Worship (?) Concert

Corporate worship (in the local body and the body of Christ) has been a kind of struggle for years, for different reasons. Some have been mended some are true struggles that may not go away, and some are still un-dealt with.

Tonight I went to a worship concert expecting to worship as I had on several occasions with these same lyrics at home. But there was an opening act before the singer I knew. This is what I wrote as I sat in my chair tonight. . .

Often times when you go to a worship concert and you know that some people are just there for the experience and the emotion and when truth is not clearly & fully told and you actually hear lies in the midst of it all, and people are excitedly singing about these things, your heart just goes out to those being led astray, fooled into a false salvation and you are humbled by God's grace, again, that He would choose to reveal to you the truth.

A night decidedly for worship then becomes a night of prayer and meditation. Hahaha, chuckle, I guess that is a form of worship too. He is faithful. And I have long been aware that my ultimate times of worship have been alone, screaming at the top of my lungs in my room & in my car, with like minded me. And second to that would be the amazing conversations with the saints that are uplifting the name of the Lord, discovering or re-discovering the mysteries so clearly revealed in the scriptures.

Through the years nothing have I looked forward to more in marriage than a soul mate who will share the thoughts and emotions that come with them in praise to our GOD. Then I can share in a worship concert and know that the person next to me is of the same mind. Then those worshipful conversations can be an every morning & night thing and not an every so often thing.

But until then, and then, may my first and last worship of each day be in prayer between the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and End, the First and the Last.

And nothing do I look forward to more about being in Heaven than praising God perfectly. Oh, how oft my heart yearns for that day, I can hardly stand it.