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MOST CHRISTIANS, today, limit the meaning of the word, “worship” to only singing songs of adoration to God. This is not good. Actually, everything we do in the name of God is an act of worship.
When you serve God or sacrifice anything like money, time, talent, knowledge or energy for the glory of God, you are worshipping God.
When the Bible talks about worshipping God, it does not mean just singing songs of adoration to God.
To worship God is to serve, sacrifice, pay homage to, adore or revere God. It is to prostrate oneself or bow to God.
In Genesis 22:5, when Abraham told his young men to stay with the donkey while he and Isaac went up to worship, it did not mean that Abraham and Isaac went to sing songs of adoration, but to sacrifice to God.
We also read in Matthew 28:17 where the disciples worshipped Jesus Christ after His resurrection. Here, too, it does not mean the disciples sang songs to Jesus, but paid homage to Him as their resurrected Lord and King.
The same can be said of John 9:38 where a man who was healed of blindness believed in Jesus
Christ and worshipped Him.
This means that everything we do in the name of the Lord is an act of worship. When we sweep, wash, write, paint, pray, sing, dance, clap, preach, teach, fast or give in the name of the Lord, we are worshipping God.
In other words, everything pastors, singers, ushers, engineers, janitors, intercessors counselors or believers do generally in the name of the Lord is an act of worship to God.
By James Quansah
