#13. We Are Made to Worship.

We are made to worship and to be dazzled and to stand in awe.  So we will either worship God or we will worship idols.  (See Psalm 145.)

I wrote this down almost two years ago, in Sunday School, I think.  I don’t really even remember the context, but I know it struck me that worship is wired into us—and that is why we all worship something.  We worship celebrities.  We worship sports teams.  We worship power, health, wealth, you name it.  We are made to worship.

Last week was our school's talent show.  It is always a joy and a privilege to watch our students display their God-given talents for His glory.  I truly believe our school is something really special—not because of anything we have done, but because of what God is doing there.

I see the elementary students and I wonder who they will become.  I see my middle schoolers and am amazed at who they have already become, and I know God isn't finished with them yet!

Although I do love my middle schoolers very much, my favorite act of the night was actually a second grader who sang Colton Dixon’s song “You Are.”  I liked the song already, but when I heard this performance, I realized I’ve been singing it wrong.  He sang it with such purity and passion; I know he understood and meant every single word.  

“If I had no voice, if I had no tongue, I would dance for you like the rising sun, and when that day comes and I see your face, I will shout your endless glorious praise!”

He is the song we sing.  All of God’s creation cries out to Him; it’s what we were made to do!  What a blessing it has been to spend the last 7 years of my life working in a place where we can fully acknowledge this, and where little second graders can literally shout the endless, glorious praise of God!  :-)  

We only have three weeks left of school, and it is getting harder and harder every day to think about leaving this special place.  But every time I think about saying, “Forget it!  I changed my mind; I’m staying!” I think about all of the people who haven’t yet heard that there is a God who made them and loves them and desires a relationship with them.  I don't want to say goodbye, but I have to move forward in obedience to God and trust Him to finish the work He has started here.

"Why should anyone hear the gospel twice before everyone has heard it once?"  -Oswald J. Smith

“It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt…He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the One who is invisible.”  -Hebrews 11:27