Worshipping God Here and There and in His Kingdom

Been thinking about worship. Worship in the form of songs is something common for us believers in Jesus. It is really fascinating to think about this in relation to our God. In fact, I was talking with the Lord this morning about it after reading the Song of Moses in Exodus 15:1-19 to the Lord after they crossed the Red Sea. They sing to the Lord praising his strength, greatness above the gods and how he has delivered them from Egypt. Then I also came to my reading on Psalm 98 which invites us to make a joyful noise to the Lord for the marvelous things he has done and for his salvation. It invites all of creation to praise him and sing for joy because he is coming to judge the Earth. We sing to God. Why? God made us to sing as an act of worship. Singing expresses our thoughts, emotions and our spiritual well-being to Him. What does God get out of it? He gets what is due to his name, but He is self-sufficient and does not need it. But He does delight in hearing us, just like we delight in singing to Him. It’s an amazing fact that this simple act of expressing worship with a song to God, pleases him.

I admit that my worship in song is imperfect. I tend to believe most of us fall short. In fact, I was thinking today while we were singing in church, what would happen if we took away all the instruments, all the lights, all the nice voices and we’d just be us looking up and singing to Jesus. What would it be like? Would we still have the same passion? Would it reveal that our worship is superficial?

I imagined that day when we will literally worship him in heaven with the Triune God present. In Revelation we find that there will be worship to the Lamb of God and our great God. All the angels and all of us from every nation, tribe, language, who have been redeemed and saved by Jesus will sing a new song to Him who sits on the throne. The focus of the singing will the Lamb of God, Jesus! There will be no distractions at all. I also believe that our new state will allow us to worship perfectly and in ways we have never been able to do it. I am not sure instruments (or lights and sound) will be necessary like we do now. The songs will be complete in Him. But we know that we will inhabit a New Earth with our resurrected bodies and well, that may bring about the worship of God with songs and instruments. The good thing, is that it will be perfect worship and everything that has breath will praise the Lord.