State of the Heart

Dear Worship Leader,

As we begin a new week I want to share some Monday Musings from a Mind numbed Minister. Even on a good Sunday, when my mind and body are both in the same time zone, Mondays are more often than not recovery days. Some Pastors I know have made the case that Jesus will come again on a Monday because the Bible says that He will come on “ A day when you think not”.

As most, if not all of you, could tell yesterday was not a great day for me. But Praise God I made it through without falling down or falling out. I write to you today not to confess how feeble I am but to testify of how faithful God is! I stumbled home last night with a new book Juan passed along to me called WORSHIP MATTERS by Bob Kauflin. I was reminded once again of how blessed I am and we are to be involved in a ministry of such eternal significance. Worship matters to God and so to be the kind of Lead Worshipers that the Father is seeking it must matter to us as well.

Worship must be more about the state of the heart than the state of the art. The great hymn-writer Issac Watts once wrote:
“The Great God values not the service of men, if the heart be not in it: The Lord sees and judges the heart;
He has no regard to outward forms of Worship, if there be no inward adoration, if no devout affection be
employed therein. It is therefore a matter of infinite importance, to have the whole heart engaged
steadfastly for God.”

Kauflin asks the question: is WORSHIP “ a matter of infinite importance to you? Unquestionably it is to God. And when it becomes a matter of infinite importance to us, we’re beginning to grasp the heart of leading Worship.”

This is the first installment of Monday Musings. Stay tuned for more…

Positively His!

Robert