This past week in my Discipleship in Community class we started off the week looking at the early church in Acts 2:42-47. In verse 46- 47 it states, “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” What a beautiful picture of worship. One of the reasons we go to worship is stir ourselves to praise. Worship is a corporate confession of sin. This is not to say that we are confessing through other people. Corporate confession is followers of Christ gather together to worship in their total fallen state and with out Christ cannot make it. So as I worshipped this morning I was joyful and thankful because I know without this Via Dolorosa or the Way of Sorrow that Jesus walked down my worship would be that of tears and sorrow. Instead as he walked to the cross I can worship with joy in the faithfulness of God’s covenant to send a Messiah to save us. The worship of joy strikes down any pride that has welled within me and has me humble crawling to God through Jesus grace. Through Jesus and his sacrifice of blood God can look at me with eyes of love, forgiveness, and mercy.
This morning as I went to church and worshipped I was screaming on the inside,
“My sin-oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! --My sin not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more; praise the Lord, praise, the Lord, O my soul!”
As we go to worship may we honestly confess our sins to God. In our confession have joy in the Lord and delight in His salvation. As I leave I will say I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.
That is something to Give thanks and be joyful about!
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