created to love Him...

  "The surrendered heart has no more controversy with God." AW Tozer Tozer is one of my favorite worship theologians, hands down. When I read Tozer I feel like the Holy Spirit lovingly takes a 2X4 and continually whacks me in the face with it. For me, this is fun, healing, cleansing...is that weird?! Tozer brings me back to square one, the foundation. I feel like when I read his books on worship, any peripheral thoughts and tangents on worship that don't belong get swept away and I'm returned to a pure & simplistic understanding and practice of what it means to be a worshiper of Jesus.  I have long understood that worship cannot be separated from obedience to God. Our modern culture and sadly, much of the modern Western church does not teach this. Worship has become a time segment of ritual emotional song singing that leaves us unchanged, yet feeling pretty good about ourSELVES. It lacks reverence, awe and has created a current generation of people who casually ap...

Worship is giving back to God what He first gave to us.  Worship is giving back to Him the song He first sang into us.  When my kids want to buy me a gift for Christmas, they ask me for money. They take my money and buy me a gift with my own money and give it back to me. The word for “worship” used in the Bible is the word, “proskuneo.” It means to bow down, to get low. Worship is the great returning to what we were meant to be. Think about this: We came from dust. In the beginning, God reached down to our level and picked up dirt and then pulled us to His level and kissed us with life. Worship is us, getting down on the dirt to what we were made from and He’s there waiting to meet us. Worship is the romance God created in the Garden. It’s returning to His face.  Our worship echoes into eternity. Have you ever thought about Mary’s (of Bethany) worship? She was the first worship leader of the New covenant…actually her worship started before the new covenant. Re...