VULNERABILITY IN WORSHIP

MATTHEW 15:21-25

Worship requires vulnerability. You have to be openly desperate. Not looking around, but focusing on God, like the woman in this story. Don't let your environment determine how you worship. Let your desperation to receive determine.

We should always be in a position of reception as we give through surrender. Through sacrifice, we should be vulnerable enough to admit our dependency on the Lord and humble enough to show our desperation. Have you ever been desperate enough? or desperate at all? Or do you constantly remain calm, cool and collected in the place of worship because you are worried how others may perceive you? Do not look to them, look to Christ. May your eyes be fixed solely on Him.

Through sacrifice, we should be vulnerable enough to admit our dependency on the Lord and humble enough to show our desperation.

There's nothing wrong with receiving from the Lord. Dear, He is our provider. He alone is our source of bread. In worship, we should be humble to accept this, in order to surrender fully; in order to let go of whatever we're holding on to and oped our arms with certainty that the Lord will always provide our needs. You can't enter into true worship and leave lacking in what you need. Otherwise, you may need to reassess your heart.

Is it a heart of surrender? Or is the Lord merely an option?

As you worship are you developing a backup plan to ask your alternative source? Or are you saying Father, you're all I've got and I know for a fact you won't leave me lacking. Your word says it; as my good shepherd, "I shall not want" (Psalms 23:1). Say to the Lord: "You're all I've got. That's it!".

Don't feel guilty to receive from the Lord. That indicates you think there's somewhere else to receive from. And tell me dear, where would that be?

Personally, the Lord showed me that I had been doing worship wrongly. I have been trying to solve everything with my own might when it's by the Spirit.

I was led to this song, "The Heart of Worship" by Matt Redman during my time of meditation and here are some of my reflections on its lyrics:

I'll bring You more than a song

For a song in itself

Is not what You have required

That calm, cool and collected song you're singing, is nice but there are deeper dimensions in worship.

You search much deeper within

Through the way things appear

You're looking into my heart.

Is your heart in the position of surrender? Are you positioned to receive?

I'm coming back to the heart of worship

And it's all about You

It's all about You, Jesus

I'm sorry, Lord for the thing I've made it

When it's all about You

It's all about You, Jesus

We've made worship about songs when it's always been about surrender to God.

I hope this encourages you to meditate on the value of surrender and vulnerability in worship. God bless you!