Born to Worship

God placed in every human being the need and desire to worship. You can go to the remotest area in the world and find that you don't need to teach people to worship because they are already worshiping a god. They already acknowledge a higher, Supreme Being. Hence, we are all born worshipers.

I remember being a huge fan of the Ateneo Blue Eagles. I watched their every game live or in TV. I cried when they suffer defeat and celebrated every victory. Even when I started working, I would take the day off just to join the crowd camping outside the gym for tickets. I went gaga whenever I see players walking in campus. This is how supposedly worshiping feels like. The adoration, the honor and the huge faith translated to complete devotion.

In the olden times, worship is done through physical acts of bowing, bending, and kneeling. Now we are being called to worship from the heart. If your heart is not in it, then it is not true worship. You can go into a place of worship and go home wanting to go back just because it makes you feel good. But true worship calls for a paradigm shift, a change of heart, an encounter with the Holy God, and an attitude of submission. Worshiping in spirit and truth is what God is looking for.

Ultimately, it is not how we worship but whom we worship that matters. It begins with God. How we respond to God in worship is directly shaped by how we see God and who we see Him to be. We present ourselves to Him as a living sacrifice, with an open and repentant spirit. We worship because we love God, through worship we give reverence, praise and glory to the One who alone is worthy of our worship. To glorify God is to respect Him through our own actions therefore, we are at our best when we praise Him.

Life is a battlefield, but we are battle born for the God of everlasting wonder whose love outlasts the end of days. 

*This was my reflection on the first edition of the Advancers (Praise your way to Victory) series Battle Born held last May 17, 2015 at Feast Greenhills. Please visit www.feastgreenhills.com to know more about the Feast.