on difficult days and worship

some days are difficult, heads and hearts ache, strength wears thin, stress gets high, pain is either on the horizon or already penetrating our souls, people hurt us or fail us, God seems distant...

the challenge is turning those difficult things into opportunities to rely on God's sustaining presence as what we need to carry us through. that's what worship is I think. that's what gives God honor, when b/c of who He is we are able to continue rather than sit down in despair. a song may remind us such that we worship, but a song is only worship full to the extent that it is an expression of a heart relying on God for everything that it needs.

may God make us worshipers, may God fill our hearts, may God reign as our desire, may God satisfy our longings... i think this is only one thought

Psalm 16:11