God's Regeneration

Worship. What is your idea of worship? Does it involve raising your hands? Does it involve closing your eyes during a song? Does it involve jumping up and down? What is worship? Tonight, I wonder about this. In youth group at my church, we always are emphasizing the need to REALLY worship God. One of the things they say is to not be afraid to raise your hands during a song. Does that mean that if you don't raise your hands you are not worshipping? NO! But, raising the hands is an outward sign of submission and need for our Heavenly Father.

In Psalm 149:1 it says, "PRAISE the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, and His praise in the assembly of saints." Notice it says to SING. In other verses it says to just make a joyful SOUND. That does not infer that it sounds good, it just means that we are joyfully worshiping our God. That leads us back to the first question....... what is worship? I believe that worship is the giving of utmost praise to the God who deserves even more than that. It is us surrendering our lives and wills to His service, and allowing Him to work through us. He deserves it, so let's give it to Him.

1 John 4:19 "We love Him because He first loved us"