Reading through the Psalms, we find many examples of WHEN to worship. When we worship can be times of praise (Psalm 150), sickness (Psalm 38), and also times of rest (psalm 60 1-4). Worship can also be held in times of distress (Psalm 56), times of question (Pss. 44, 88) and times of rememberance (Pss. 136-137). Really there is no time to NOT worship God for all that he gives us in times of joy and times of trial, but sometimes we forget to turn our eyes to Jesus during these times. That is why the Psalms are a great starting place for these times, and are also a great resource for the words that we need but cannot express in these times when we worship.
An example of this is when I was up at Trinity Western University heading across campus to one of my classes and a dark cloud sat over the campus, but it hadn’t started to rain yet. I arrived to the lecture hall and prepared for class, when all of a sudden our professor burst into the room and yelled out, “did you see the skies as you walked into the building just now? Quick, grab your bible and let’s read Psalm 19!”. We read the Psalm aloud as a class with one voice and worshipped God with the Psalm.
So when do we worship? Again, as said earlier in “where we worship”, we worship as a reaction to God – like when we salivate when we smell or think of food. Maybe then, we worship when we truly realize God’s presence in our life, Jesus’ impact with his sacrifice for true life for us, and the way that the Holy Spirit is moving in us.
Thoughts?
