grow - BJ Baillie

5th October 2010 by MORE

Well, from the start of this year I have been studying at the Salvation Army School for Youth Leadership. Since starting my studies, I have learnt so much about so many things. One thing that God has taught me about is worship.

At first, I thought worship was a style of music that you listen to at church and that you clap your hands along to. So, when God first brought worship to my attention I thought I had to change the kind of music that I regularly listen to.

Music has always had an influence on my behaviour and attitude towards things in life, but I still wasn't getting it. I know God was trying to teach me about true worship, but this was a hard thing to swallow for me.

So, I went deeper into this topic of "worship". I went to the Bible to see what was involved in worship, to discover how to worship, to find out when and where people worshipped and also why we worship.

For all my questions, I found answers to them in the Bible. I found out who worshipped and in what ways. These included Daniel who kneeled three times a day in prayer as worship, David who danced in worship and the crippled man in the book of Acts who started jumping, shouting and running in worship when he was healed by Jesus.

I also found out that anyone can worship God anywhere, which has definitely helped me out.

But the question I really wanted to know the answer to was why we worship. We worship because that is what we were made to do – we were made by God, for God.

This journey I couldn't have done by myself and I probably wouldn't have even started by myself. It took a normal worship experience to question everything.

This lesson is one of many lessons that God has taught me already this year and I know there are many more lessons to come.

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Blake Cugley

November 06, 2010 at 8:35pm

Thanks BJ, your passion for worship has really 'refuelled' my own passion for worhip. So thanks for sharing that at Menai

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