"Living In Worship"

By Zach Wood

Psalm 84:1-2

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!  My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

 

 

For the past couple of weeks, I have meditated and prayed through these verses in Psalm.  As I consider David's words of being in the presence of our Holy and Almighty God, all I can do is desire and long for the same experience.  I like to start out my day and think of these words as I begin to communicate with others and move through the day.  I want people to know, from knowing me, that God's dwelling place is awesome!  I want people to know that there is an Almighty God they can long for and yearn for that will not leave them dry.  I just pray that my attitude, actions and words will exemplify these verses for others to see.

 

I will be very honest with you in sharing that my heart does not always long and yearn for God.  Some days, I feel that my heart is so far away from yearning for God because my mind is on earthly things and even sinful mindsets.  I tend to think only what I want and how I need to be pleased.  I forget often how my life needs to glorify God and be in constant worship in the courts of the Lord.  I find myself outside the temple just meandering looking for something to fill the void that only God can fill. 

 

I want to be living in constant worship as David was.  He hungered and thirsted for the presence of God.  Don't you want that?  I sure do!  I want to long for the Lord so much that I wake up just craving to dive into His Word!  I am thankful that mornings are my only sure time to be alone.  My wife and daughter are asleep the whole time I am getting ready for work in the mornings.  That is a sure time for me to be completely alone and spend time with God.  However, mornings are also challenging because I am not quite as awake as I'd like to be and that makes devotional time hard.  But I do enjoy the alone time with God.

 

I need to make it my prayer each day that I would be living in worship to God.  I pray that you would also make that your prayer as David did.  We need to be deep into worshiping God that our heart and flesh cry out to Him instead of words just being mumbled.  It is one thing to just mumble words, but something more to actually speak words of passion to the Lord. 

 

Do you believe the words David spoke, "How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!"?  Is that place beautiful to you or just another routine place to just utter some words and say Amen?  Living in Worship requires a sincere and dedicated heart that longs and thirsts for God.