Everyone wants to be wanted. It’s how we understand our self worth. We can define our worth by what we can do for the world, which enslaves us to the fallen standard of the world. We can also define our worth by what others think, which forces us to abandon who we really are to please others. Instead our real worth comes from God who made us. God thinks we’re priceless, if only we can see ourselves as God sees us.
What’s the one thing it seems no Christian can agree on? Worship. The church seems to be deeply divided on what worship is and how we’re supposed to worship. That’s a big problem for a people who claim to be bound together in unity. Before we try and tackle this problem we need to answer the question, “what is worship?”
Today is the day. The big one. It’s the day I turn 30 years old. Despite my three decades on this planet, I still don’t feel like an adult. I thought that by now I would have this whole thing figured out and that life would make more sense, but it turns out that’s not the case. Perhaps that’s not a bad thing. In fact, that might be the way you’re supposed to live life, as a child.
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