HAPPY MONDAY!

Happy Monday to all of you! Just a few thoughts this Monday from a Mind Numbed Minister. I was reminded again this weekend of what an awesome responsibility we have as Worship Leaders. One of our main priorities as Lead Worshipers is to call God's people to Worship. David's invitation in Psalm 34:3 was "Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together!" Bob Kauflin in WORSHIP MATTERS said, "I want help people remember that God is bigger than their problems and joys, greater than their sorrows and successes, more significant than their tests and triumphs." As we moved from a funeral on Saturday to Worship on Sunday God continued to remind me that as we call people to Worship and Exalt Him, not everyone starts from the same place. Every week we stand before people who are pumped and ready to experience God, all they need is a down beat and their off. But in the same crowd we find those who have just experienced great loss, or a bad diagnosis from a doctor, troubled children or even something as mundane as a flat tire on the way to church. Our mission is to meet all of those people where they are and remind them of how great our God is. It seems that we have become so intent on making God personal that we have undervalued His greatness. J.I. Packer said it this way:"vast stress is laid on the thought that God is personal, but this truth is so stated as to leave the impression that God is a person of the same sort as we are-But God is not so limited. He is eternal, infinite, and almighty. He has us in His hands: we never have Him in ours. Like us He is personal: but unlike us, He is great."

As I stated at the beginning, our responsibility is awesome, but so is our privilege. What an honor it is to stand before God and His people and remind all of us that our God is an AWESOME GOD! We may change, but He does not. "Age to age He stands and time is in His hands, beginning and the end" Have a great week! I am and continue to be...
Positively His!
Robert