The Meaning of Worship

By Sarah MacIntosh • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Artists in Residence

Worship: to ascribe worth to something. As a Christian, worship means ascribing worship to our God, to Jesus usually through music and singing. To a non-Christian it means ascribing worship to many different things and in many different ways. Oftentimes when I am trying to find freshness and newness in my worship of my creator I look to the ways that I give worth to other aspects and people in life.

One of the things I am most excited about right now are the upcoming Olympics being held in Beijing, China. As an avid runner and tomboy I have been in sports/athletic activity from a very young age and the Olympics are like a gift of pure pleasure to me to watch especially the summer Olympics. I find myself Tivo-ing every sport, learning about every athlete and hold my breath as my favorites compete.

Since running is one of my favorite pastimes it is the running portion of the Olympics that I look forward to the most. Already I am extremely eager to see what British marathoner Paula Radcliff does this year after quitting towards the end of the last Olympics marathon event in 2004 due to exhaustion. I am waiting on the edge of my seat to see if she can come back and pull out a huge win over the other ladies in the marathon like she is very capable of doing.

I know that if and when she does this I will be the person alone in my house watching and jumping up and down and cheering for her! I will probably have tears in my eyes from the pure joy and excitement of her accomplishment. I will probably tell others about what she did and the obstacles she overcame in order to do it. Then I will probably head outside and take a good run myself because of her inspiration.

Do I ever do this with God? Do I ever wait on the edge of my seat for the moment that is coming where I get to see Him and respond with jumping up and down, cheering, tear-filled, joyful adoration? Do I ever run out immediately and tell anyone and everyone about what He has done? Do ever spend time imitating Him because of the way He has inspired my life?

If I find myself doing this then I find myself worshipping Him and believe me, He is much more accomplished and worthy of my worship than any gold-medal winning, world record breaking athlete. He is God!

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