Worship Is Whole-Person, All the Time (I)

‘Not the concept of ‘doing,’ but the reality of ‘being.”

Worship-as-life: attending to your own body, respecting your own life, sincerely and consistently offering yourself to the Lord.

Attending to Your Body
The body is God’s creation; respect her, guard her — she is God’s gift to us. Do not be a Sunday Christian: of the week’s seven days, how do we see each one? Some say after a hard week, finally we can rest in Sunday worship before sprinting into a new week. Is Sunday worship really our only spiritual fuel-stop in the faith and Scripture we know?

Some will say everyday life — three meals, work, family — already takes everything, with no extra energy for any ‘worship-as-life.’ Reasons abound. These are true — we cannot escape them; we live in the world, not in some ethereal beyond. Yet if we embrace and acknowledge that God dwells among us, then every day, from morning to night, we walk with God; God cares for everything we have. Then we will pay more attention to our inner feelings, connect with the surroundings — and at that moment our body is already worshipping. We connect the existence of our body with the world, see a piece of news, remember someone, send a text. Because we let the body feel the inner and outer worlds more, we do things that bring comfort and health: exercise, a careful meal, a song, sleep, weeping and laughter.

This is honest to your body, heart, and soul — being honest with your body, heart, and soul. (To be continued.)