Greetings Dear Reader,
“If you can keep your head when all about
you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on
you…” - Rudyard Kipling
If I am going to hold on in the current distress, I cannot
depend on or trust my feelings alone. I know
that in the past when I have been overburdened by circumstances, I have turned
to wild, abandoned worship. That is not
bad but it is, for me, unhealthy. It is
only one side of the adoration coin.
You see, I am not truly worshiping for the sake of giving
honor and love to the Father. I am emoting
in a safe way. It may be that at times
it even comes from a place of rage. If
then, I feel overwhelmed, overburdened, or overstimulated by pain or anger, I
must wait to worship. I must keep my head
no matter what is going on around me.
As this occurred to me, I have taken a very calm approach to
worship time at church and alone. I sit
during worship, taking in what is going on around me and identifying the
feelings inside my heart. I trace them
to the thoughts that yield those feelings, pondering the thinking and the
purpose behind it. Once I know where my
head is, I will find lines in the current worship song that reflect my honest
thoughts toward the Father.
Whether in corporate worship or alone, I speak clear thoughtful
statements about my love for the Father and my gratitude for all he does for
us. I face how I am really thinking and
yield my heart to things that honor God instead of emoting to squelch the undeniable
voice of truth. Shouting and dancing is
just noise if it is not couched in the arms of truth.
We must hold on by keeping our heads. We must think well and allow every true thought
to have its voice in us. I must meter my
feelings based on truth and not make the feeling my truth instead. I have to think and then feel. When the truth that flows through my mind is
good, then I can love through worship with abandon. I must worship in spirit and in truth. If I only worship in spirit I am leaving out
half of the binary that connects me to the Father in the moment of adoration.
Whether it is a captivating sunrise or an act of kindness
witnessed, I can take a beat to see the Father at work and express my love and
gratitude for the truth of his presence in all things. Part of learning to be in a constant attitude
of prayer is seeing the Father at work in every moment. I must wait to worship so that I hold on to the truth. I must be sure that my heart and
mind are aligned with the reality of the situation.
If I worship to avoid dealing with the truth, I am taking the
name of the Father for my own purposes; in vain. That, Dear Reader, will lead to less truth
and more pain. That will destroy my ability
to hold on. As we journey together, let
us keep our heads and share honestly with the Father what hinders us. Then we can move past the obstruction and
worship in spirit and in truth. Then we
will have the whole of worship to help us hold our place and travel onward. We will be able to travel in the midst of
where the Father abides.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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Thorn:
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