Worship is more than Love

Ever think that worship is an antedote for loneliness?

Here are three things about worship that I think counter the ache of loneliness.

1.  Recognize worship as the legitimate sense of mystery and the rightful expression of awe.  If we reflect on our own pursuits, for example, in the area of academia,  because of our desire to know - we can look at ourselves and rather than see God's hand with us, with think we accomplished everything on our own. The heart of worship suggests that even our very own life is a gift.

2. This kind of Appreciative love goes beyond itself and gives to others. If it were not for Appreciative love for God, one could never love his or her enemy or even love for another’s sake. Because of our love for God we endure all things. And from the love with which He enriches us flows a love that is not our own .It comes from a deposit He makes in our hearts from which we draw.

3.Appreciative love binds the worshipping life into a single focus, touching upon every sense of life itself. Worship brings the coalescence of essence. For instance, musicians are "persons" first before they are musicians and a life that seeks fulfillment in its expertise before it finds fulfillment in its being is bound to feel fragmented.

The songwriter beautifully blends these truths, base on the forty-second Psalm -

As the deer panteth for the water,
So my soul longeth after Thee,
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship Thee.
You alone are my strength and shield
To you alone may my spirit yield;
You alone are my heart’s desire,
and I long to worship Thee

 http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=JE12CFNU