It Comes Naturally

I have been reading one of the many books I got a while back in my "dollar boxes" - someone I knew had managed a Christian bookstore, and was moving out of the area, so he sold off tons of books he had had - for 25 cents each - then the next day, for a $1 a box - I got like six boxes of books. :-)

Anyway, one of those is the book I am reading: : I Can Only Imagine, by Mercy Me & Jeff Kinley. I'm not too far into the book yet, but like what I have read. In chapter one, they listed the distorted views of God people have - I identified with that.

Chapter two is what really caught my interest. They said that worship comes naturally for us. I kind of doubted their statement, but read on, and I have to agree with them.

Most people have something that just comes naturally to them. Some can write well, without ever taking writing classes. A man in my church can fix about anything electronic - as a kid on the mission field, he would tear things apart to see how they worked, and put them back together.

There is also another guy at my church who seems to be good at everything. Not making that up. He can do the following, and well: sing, speak, sports, hunt - he is like a Davy Crockett! - and the list goes on - no matter what he does, it seems to come naturally - and yet this guy sits in a pew and just warms the bench - talent wasted.

Most of us aren't like my friend at church. We may feel like nothing comes naturally to us, and we have to work hard to be even average at something - I feel that way.

Yet, there are things in life that do come naturally, and some we wish didn't. The authors brought up tripping - oh yeah, have my masters degree in that! Walking - we have to learn as a baby, but it does come naturally.

Same thing with worship. We are all born with the natural God given desire and ability to worship. If we don't worship God, we will worship something, or someone. Worship may come naturally, but it seems to focus worship where it should be, is what doesn't come naturally. And I'm not taking about simply going to church, singing a few praise & worship choruses, and going home, feeling we have got our worship in for the day.

I looked up worship on dictionary.com, and here are some definitions:


reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred

adoring reverence or regard: excessive worship of business success

the object of adoring reverence or regard

It has been said by someone that worship is a lifestyle. The ultimate object of our affection and love, the person we need to please above all others, is God. Not your spouse, kids, parents, friend.

Worship is something we do daily. Make God the object of our reverence and regard.

Who, or what, are you worshipping?