Continual Worship

As I mentioned earlier I am a college student. Last year our theme for the year here was Continual Worship and lately I have been thinking a lot about that. For class our past assignment was all about community worship, the assignment was to experience worship. Worship in community and feel God fully and truly. (I am really hoping that just made sense)

I can honestly say I did  not do what I intended when it came to this assignment…. long day short Sunday just was not my day this week J So because of this I feel the need to share continual worship in a different and very unintentional way.

Friday of last week I learned that one of my old Professors was speaking in chapel. The Roomsmate and I decided we really wanted to go (let us just say this professor is the best in the world! I love her, she was one of my biggest role models last year and If I can be half as influential on someone's life as she was on mine I would be amazing.) So back to the story, we planned on waking up early showering looking presentable to the world and going to chapel which is only a half hour before our class starts. Let us just say that did not happen…. Like usual I decided not to hear my alarm and woke up at 10:00 (Chapel begins at 10:10) I yelled at the Roomsmate that chapel began in 10 minutes threw on clothes and the boot (I have a really bad sprain involving some torn things) and basically did my own version of running/ limping almost falling multiple times. But all was well because I made it to chapel at 10:11 and was not late for the beginning. We sang some contemporary song and sat down. Than my professor got up and began to speak. She talked all about how a lot of Christians tend to give bad things to God… For example you trip and fall and sprain an ankle J that is easy to give to God. To come to him and say I am having this problem, I am in a lot of pain please Father help me to heal. But when is the last time we gave the good things to God? when was the last time we said God you have blessed me because my foot is not broken and I can walk and you have been able to get me into physical therapy Thank you! Or I locked my keys in the car Thank you Lord for making it an easy thing to fix and open up the door. Or even my tire blew out and another car over heated and my computer is not working BUT thank you my heavenly father for keeping me safe, for letting me have another computer to use, for giving me back grandpa(my car) So I can still have a car until we figure out how to fix Leonardo (my other car)

Sorry that was so rambley but hopefully you got the Idea. So I guess what I am trying to say about worship is that sometimes community does  not help us feel God, but I think we can feel him on our own, we feel his presence and we feel his love by worshiping through a speaker or through our daily tasks. I just have begun realizing how so very important it is for me to praise God in all I do the good and the bad, do not leave anything out. Our God is not a God of only bad, he is a God of love and a God who deserves to be worshiped in every aspect of our lives. I cannot account for you who are reading, but I want to be someone who God is radiated through,

-Em

1 Corinthians 10:31 ³¹ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.