Worship , Sorrows‏

Posted by Dennis Ng , Wednesday, April 8, 2009 3:55 PM

To all my beloved brothers and sisters,

I recognize that many of us lament and fall into deep sorrows in different stations of our life. yet many times like Job. Many of our friends and close ones couldn't understand the pain, in fact even ungracefully being accuse and judge. Are you one of them? Are you going through sorrows and pain?

How many of us have been trying to act strong in church? In front of people? That we are ALRIGHT? Or are we deceive again by Satan?
Or being a Christain means to be a Strong, Godly feel? Are we putting on a mask on everyday? I don't see Jesus so GaRAng you know!

Do you know Jesus weeps quite a lot? Remember His last cry on the cross?
[There is] a time to weep.
Ecclesiastes 3:4
Its impossible to know God... without understanding lamenting, without wilderness..

Don't carry the mindset that crying out, in desperateness, in complaints, in questioning God is bad. Even Jesus reveal to us that prayers of complaint can still be prayers of faith. People like Job, David, Jeremiah, they represent the last refusal to let go of God who may seem to be absent or worst uncaring.
Remember Naomi we talk about at Uncle Henry's place? We may feel that she is just complaining, not the kind of very Godly person. That's totally untrue! How great is that faith! The holding on to God and going back to His land!

1. When you are hurt and suffering. Be yourself. Express freely. But only His presence will finally answer your problem.
2. Draw Strength from God and Trust Him to see you through. And sound your voice to God, many "lamenters(David Job they all)" sometimes even accuse God of not acting in accordance to His revealed Characteristics.
3. Be authentic with God. One of the most importent thing in all relationship is brutal honesty. Not only with God but with one another. If we cant feel the sorrow and pain for one another, can we really grow as friends?
   

Worship is not only about good feelings, joy and prosperity, though they are the heart of it. If this were true, then according to this modern understanding of worship, the poor have nothing to say, nothing of value to bring to God. While Jesus would pronounce a blessing on those who mourn, we pronounce this curse. Those who " labor are heavy laden" can find no place in our comfortable churches to lay their burdens. We reason " who could possibly conceive of a God who would want to receive such worthless empty offerings?' But Job desperately clings to such a God, one who encourages us to offer everything to Him, every joy and every sorrow. All our broken hearts. All our contrite spirits. Because He is worth it, so call Worship.

I believe a teaching Michael Card said, " True Worship begins in the wilderness".
There is no worship without wilderness. There can be no worshipful joy of salvation until we realized the lamentable wilderness of what we were save from,
Until we begin to understand just what it cost Jesus to come and find us and be that perfect provision in the wilderness.



Dennis ng
With Love