Could this be what makes pleasing worship?
"I'll give you my worship; I'll pour it out on you. Let it be beautiful; let it be costly. Let it be innocent. Let it be holy, holy like you are." These lyrics from a new song by Faith Alive Band stopped me in my tracks. "Beautiful...costly... innocent..." What powerful words. It's so easy to think of worship as participating in a song service. Of course singing is part of worship. But Paul tells us offering our bodies as a living sacrifice is worship holy and pleasing to God. (Rom. 12:1) That sounds great. But how does that work in real life? The Message version leaves no room for confusion: "Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering." I've wondered how my "everyday life" could be worship. I love my life! But some things, like my job, can be crazy hard. I believe God gave me the job - so in the difficulty, I question what I...