I love praise services.
I went to one recently.
It was a little out of the ordinary, but still beautiful. I was singing and lifting my hands, and telling God how praiseworthy He is.
Did I mention that it was a little out of the ordinary?
I only say that because:
- I was alone.
- I was in my car.
- I was staring at razor wire, guard towers, and cell blocks, and I was about to enter a maximum security prison for what I knew was going to be another difficult day.
Frankly, on that morning, if it was a different setting like one in which there was no fruit on the fig tree, grapes on the vine, and my olive crop failed, I still would have been praising God (Oh … wait, that is Habakkuk).
My point is, we don’t need a fancy sanctuary, a full choir, and a church filled with joyful people to have a worship service, we just need to have worship in our hearts.
Maybe you are saying, “It has been a long time since I have been to a good worship service”. I wonder why that is. Is it because your outward surroundings haven’t been right, or the inward condition of your heart?
If you are struggling to worship God, tell Him. Better yet, pray to Him, and ask Him help you have a Habakkuk heart. He can make you feel like the feet of a deer, and enable you to tread on great heights, even at a prison.
“ Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. – Habakkuk 3:17-19
For Jesus,
Rob