the first time...
so as i was walking to school this morning, which was around 10 mins ago from the station, i was thinking... that's rite.. thinking...
you know how some people say that the first time you ever do something you'll remember it the best? well i was thinking my first time for everything, first day of school, of high school, of university, of TC, of other things and seriously, none of them really stand out in my life as super important, then as i was thinking and listening to Hillsong's, i thought about celebration... i thought about BCOQ and how amazing the jr highs were and how freely they worshipped when they realized that how they worship only matters to God, and how God only worries about the heart...
then i started thinking about ETCBC, how our worship is on sunday mornings, we're very reflective group but less celebration, and i question why? it's good to relfect but why not celebrate freely as the jr. highs did? as King David did back in the old days?
as i continued to think, i remembered when was the day i celebrated God's love the most, and that was the day i committed my life to God fully, a few years back. I remembered when I layed down everything before him and "died". The first time...
wow, chills ran down my back, almost teared, and the joy of that first time just blew me away...
how amazing that would be if everyday of worship we remember as if it was our first time..
what i mean is that we (including myself) have gotten use to worship. in a sense that it's not what it use to be and we've gotten so use to the standing and singing that we forget why we worship... what is worship?
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
--- romans 12
our act of worship is daily, and our act of worship is to offer our bodies as LIVING SACRIFICES.. to experience that first time when we did offer our lives... the first time...
we are STILL LIVING... we are not dead... we are dead to this world, but living in Christ.. and our daily worship should still be a living sacrifice...
at church, at school, at work, any time of the day...our life should reflect our worship to God,
i'm not saying that we shouldn't reflect and listen, but we need to celebrate at the same time that we are living, that every single step we take should be the though of sacrifice...
and to once again think of the first day we truly learned to sacrifice, and look towards the ONE that did the ultimate sacrifice... and to not just dwell on that but realize that through His sacrifice, we can now LIVE... celebrate...
you know how some people say that the first time you ever do something you'll remember it the best? well i was thinking my first time for everything, first day of school, of high school, of university, of TC, of other things and seriously, none of them really stand out in my life as super important, then as i was thinking and listening to Hillsong's, i thought about celebration... i thought about BCOQ and how amazing the jr highs were and how freely they worshipped when they realized that how they worship only matters to God, and how God only worries about the heart...
then i started thinking about ETCBC, how our worship is on sunday mornings, we're very reflective group but less celebration, and i question why? it's good to relfect but why not celebrate freely as the jr. highs did? as King David did back in the old days?
as i continued to think, i remembered when was the day i celebrated God's love the most, and that was the day i committed my life to God fully, a few years back. I remembered when I layed down everything before him and "died". The first time...
wow, chills ran down my back, almost teared, and the joy of that first time just blew me away...
how amazing that would be if everyday of worship we remember as if it was our first time..
what i mean is that we (including myself) have gotten use to worship. in a sense that it's not what it use to be and we've gotten so use to the standing and singing that we forget why we worship... what is worship?
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
--- romans 12
our act of worship is daily, and our act of worship is to offer our bodies as LIVING SACRIFICES.. to experience that first time when we did offer our lives... the first time...
we are STILL LIVING... we are not dead... we are dead to this world, but living in Christ.. and our daily worship should still be a living sacrifice...
at church, at school, at work, any time of the day...our life should reflect our worship to God,
i'm not saying that we shouldn't reflect and listen, but we need to celebrate at the same time that we are living, that every single step we take should be the though of sacrifice...
and to once again think of the first day we truly learned to sacrifice, and look towards the ONE that did the ultimate sacrifice... and to not just dwell on that but realize that through His sacrifice, we can now LIVE... celebrate...
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