Wrestling to Worship…to Mission
August 31st, 2009 by Dan
These past few weeks we have been looking at the Psalms, and seeing how real, how relevant, how raw they can be. This past week we talked a little about how God wants us to move from wrestling with Him, to worshipping Him. We saw how the journey of faith must actually have a destination. We were made to find home. We were made to worship something, and in the absence of worshipping God, we will worship little ‘g’ gods – idols, functional gods who cannot handle the weight of expectations that we put on them.
Wrestling to worship. We were made to delight in, to glory in, to find our joy and satisfaction in, God Himself. Only God can carry the weight of our infinite desires. Only God can actually satisfy the depth of our needs and dreams. We were made for perfection, and He alone can quench our thirst for infinite beauty, infinite wisdom, infinite justice and infinite joy.
But it goes further than that. Worship will inevitably, and must irresistibly, lead to mission. You cannot worship God, delight in him, enjoy him properly, without wanting to share him contagiously.
That is why we are framing our next series of sermons on the person of Jesus. We are going to take this next semester and talk about two things: Understanding Jesus, and Following Jesus. Taken from the gospel of Luke, we are going to gaze deeply into the person, and the work, of our dear Saviour.
This will be an excellent opportunity for us not only to deepen our understanding, but to bring people who do not yet understand the gospel, into a thoughtful, deeper conversation about who He is and what He means to them. A great opportunity to bring friends and co-workers, family and neighbours to hear about the God who became one of us. So that we might become like Him; a beloved child of the Father.
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