Wii worship

 Wii Worshiping!  

My hubby and I had been very busy planning our 1^st annual Wii Olympics for our daughter, niece, nephew and their friends.  My sweet man had purchased all sorts of cute things to give away as prizes and trophies as well as organizing the event.   

Finally the night of our Wii Olympics was here and my hubby with all his bounty was set for the event.  As I sat at the dining room table with the other “adults” to watch the competition as spectators, I was hit with a sudden realization.  Daddy (God) gently spoke to me.  As I watched my Sweet Man bowl, ping-pong, row, arch, chop and punch with those kiddos, I knew then that God was redefining my view of worship.  God started showing me the true meaning of Romans 12:1.  

      “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.”  

God kept repeating to me “Now THIS is worship!”  It has been several months now since our Wii Olympics, but God is still revealing more to me.  As I sat down to write this, I decided to look up Romans 12:1 in the Message Bible.  As I read the commentary from the translator, Eugene Peterson, God confirmed my revelation:  

….We keep trying to confine worship to the sanctuary- to preaching, prayers, and parish announcement, to religious experiences.  But God is commanding us to extend it to home, work, neighborhood, and leisure.  Worship is the style of life in which our bodies become living sacrifices, offered up before God. 

     People have different skills, different strengths, different sensibilities.  God has given us one another so that we may have a shared life.  None of us can live the abundant life as hermits.  Nor can we live to the glory of God if we carefully pick whom we’re willing to associate with.  All who live are God’s creation and parts of the body of Christ.  We’re members of one another.  We exist in a family, together, not alone. 

     And Here’s how God wants us to live in such a family: worshipfully. 

     Life is full of financial inequities, and worship involves a generous response to the economic needs of others….It’s the offering of our total economic selves to the glory and service of God.  It means a liberal and generous assessment of other people’s needs in relation to our own….Worship isn’t a religious performance we sit back and enjoy; it’s an act in which we participate.  And as we participate, we’re changed…..Either we’re conformed to the world or we’re transformed by God.  And worship is what he uses to bring about that transformation.  

Looking to the needs of others and letting God live through us to meet that need, now THIS is worship.  I now see every moment of everyday as an opportunity to worship…it is something to which I look forward.  God has shown me that meeting a need doesn’t just mean writing a check, but it is entering into the other person’s life, their pain, their need and just being  there for them….sometimes it may even take a game of Wii to show them they are truly loved.

Tina Blaney

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