Even when doing the dishes.....

Hello, one and all its me again, back after a while away. Been an exciting two weeks with stuff coming up and changing all the time. Exam season now so everything is like in high gear with guys doing a lot of SWATing for their upcoming papers. So just been a good morning, woke up and was thinking tomorrow (24th October) is a very significant day for me although at the moment it won't have an official significance it still reminds me of the journey thus far and how I made some important decisions in my life. But anyway back to the subject matter, I guess you guys must be wondering what this whole ' Even when doing dishes' title is all about. Well today I was at a worship workshop for all the GodFirst battalions and got a lot of insight into worship and thought I'ld share with you guys.

There was an interesting quote that came up today, "Religion happens when God walks out the door". Just got me thinking what things have I been doing as a worship leader during the worship service that God is not involved in at all but just because well, 'I've learnt to do it RELIGIOUSLY'. Very disturbing thought but think about it, in church are you now just raising your hands, cause its the norm, do you even know why you're raising up your hands? Not to say raising up hands isn't great  its awesome shows just our surrender to God, but when we no longer think about why we're doing stuff and they just become 'RELIGION' then it becomes fruitless.

Today though I just want to shift our gears and move out of the context of church and more into our everyday lives. What is worship for us, if we could mention the five things you could do other than singing to worship God, what would it be? Would that include paying your taxes with integrity, being a good steward of your time and studying for an exam or doing an assignment on time. To think about most of our lists might include the 'significant stuff' like, working at a homeless shelter, or serving in a team on Sunday, which are all GREAT things don't get me wrong. But sometimes we think we can't do this in the ordinary stuff and thereby lose the opportunity to worship God all the time. As that verse in 1 Cor 10:31 thats says "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God's glory."(HCSB)


So I've got a challenge for you guys, I'm always on my facebook like once every hour of the day, so for the next seven days my statuses will show how on that day I'm going to worship God. I want to do this for two reasons, firstly since I am on my facebook constantly its a good reminder of what I should be doing for the day. And two it might encourage people on ordinary stuff they could also do to worship God. Hope all of you will join me in this. And maybe you're not a facebook addict like me and you're always on your cellphone. Why don't you make your background image what you're gonna worship God by doing today, or even set a reminder very hour. Maybe you're a computer junky, set your desktop background to what you're gonna do to worship God. I assure you you'll see amazing fruits as you exercise God in worshiping God in all you do.

Just want  to leave you with a scripture which I think so depicts what our lives should be like, "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."(Message)


love, peace and happiness


Tau