Quiet Time - Worship
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
"While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.
When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste? This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”
Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me. The poor you will always have with you,b but you will not always have Me. By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial. Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Matthew 26:6–13 in the Berean Study Bible Edition
[This is the 28th message in this series]
The act of worship is an act of love. It is personal. It is intimate and reflects the kind of relationship one has with Our Creator, Our heavenly Father, Our Savior and Our constant and ever present Help.
If we cannot cry out, sing praise, raise our voice, make a joyful noise, dance with gladness and go all out with our expressions of appreciation for what the Lord has done for us, for His tender love and compassion, for His grace, mercy and patience, then are we just being true to ourselves?
When the Holy Spirit's presence is pulpable and when everyone else is expressing acts of praise and worship, are we concerned with anything else?
Expressions of Adoration, Praise & Worship
Worship does not exactly look the same for everyone but is the proper response towards God, yet what is interesting is why many do not have the desire to show acts of worship or even criticize and prevent others from demonstrating theirs.
In the excerpt above, Matthew tells us an intriguing story when even the closest disciples of Jesus were disturbed, offended and upset towards how someone showed her act of worship to Jesus of Nazareth.
We see a similar response from Michal, King David's wife towards her husband as he humiliated himself for dancing for joy towards the Lord (2nd Samuel 6).
The Same Yesterday & Today
It is the same way many of us feel today when we see other people worshipping God which are a little weird for our taste or differently than how we do so, or how our tradition, our culture, our generation, our status, our decorum, or our sensibilities dictate us to do so.
Worship does not exactly look the same for everyone but is the proper response towards God, yet what is interesting is why many do not have the desire to show acts of worship or even criticize and prevent others from demonstrating theirs.
In the excerpt above, Matthew tells us an intriguing story when even the closest disciples of Jesus were disturbed, offended and upset towards how someone showed her act of worship to Jesus of Nazareth.
We see a similar response from Michal, King David's wife towards her husband as he humiliated himself for dancing for joy towards the Lord (2nd Samuel 6).
The Same Yesterday & Today
It is the same way many of us feel today when we see other people worshipping God which are a little weird for our taste or differently than how we do so, or how our tradition, our culture, our generation, our status, our decorum, or our sensibilities dictate us to do so.
God is the same whether we worship Him or not, He loses nothing. We are losing out. What are we going to be doing in God's heaven for eternity after we moved on from here, when we cannot even open our mouths to sing and make a joyful noise here now?
Yes in heaven there will be no more denomination, age, gender, status, background, color and everything else that differentiates us here.
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