I can’t speak about worship and not mention David, so I started to study a bit about David and the way he worshipped God. The google definition of worship states it is “the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity”. David’s life was a true embodiment of that and you could see in the way he lived his life, he was not a perfect man and he was aware of that. However, he was a great worshipper and that’s one reason I believe that God named him a man after his own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). He devoted his life to worshipping God and acknowledged God in everything that he did, he did not hold anything back – he laid it all out to God. As believers, I think we could all take something from the way David worshipped God.
What stood out to me the most was the way he loved God, David hated the things that God hated and loved the things that God loved – he truly made his life a living sacrifice unto God. There was an intimate relationship with God and David – this made it easier for David to communicate with God openly with how he felt. A lot of us bottle things in and personally when I hid things from God in the past, it affected my worship to him – I couldn’t be free, I couldn’t cast all my worries to him, I couldn’t lay it all down to him in my worship because I was guarded. I guarded my heart and things from God, when God knows me inside out, he knows me better than I know myself.
A key thing I learned from studying a bit about David’s life was to worship God with everything inside of me (Psalms 63) and to let go and let God. David was someone that truly understood God and God’s way and wanted to know more – he knew his identity in Christ and you see this, he was not afraid to tell God when he was worried, when he was happy, when he was excited. He expressed every part of him to God. He was so free in Christ that his wife despised him for it – in (2 Samuel 6) David rejoices because he brought back the Ark of God the bible said that “David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment” (2 Samuel 6:14) David did not care about who was there, he worshipped God with all that he had – he was overjoyed with the return of the Ark of God. He wasn’t looking at what people were saying. However, his wife was ashamed and in verse 16 it says that “she was filled with contempt for him” she wanted to place a restriction with how he worshipped God, she was ashamed at his worship because she believed that a king was not supposed to be composed in the manner David was. She was too focused on how he looked to people.
How many of us are so restricted in the place of worship so people do not think we are weird? I used to be like that, I tried to control my every move when it was time to praise God. That is selfish because God is worth so much more, God gives us all of him so why can’t we give him all of us? let us be free in his presence – let us give our all to him. He deserves it.
Father Lord, I thank you for the opportunity to be able to worship you, let us understand what it truly means to worship you, give us the grace to be free in your presence and to remove any restrictions because you deserve it. In Jesus name, Amen.
Thank you, Jesus.
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