For as long as I could remember I
have had a passion for worship. I
can remember as a young kid watching my Dad leading worship with such joy and
excitement. I was so enthralled with it. I said to myself many times,
“That’s what I want to do someday, I wanna be like that.” I remember
going to countless late night worship services at the church and seeing my Dad lead
people into worship, and I was convinced that's what I wanted to do with my life, lead people into the presence of God.
I started leading worship when I was about 15 yrs old, and I
have loved every minute of it. I have hard times, times of discovery, and times
when I thought it couldn’t be any better. Recently, I have had an opportunity
to take a break from leading worship. I would be lying to you If I told you
that I haven’t missed it a lot, but through this time, God has been really
changing my perspective about what worship truly is. For most of my
time leading worship, my perspective has been mostly performance-based. Somehow
I believed that if I didn’t have my life together, then I wouldn’t be effective
and couldn’t worship God as freely as I wanted to. I felt as if I had to try to
clean myself up to be able worship God. The belief was that God needed ME to shape up to
move in worship. Not true at all!
God wants us to worship Him wherever we are, however we are! Not just with
music, or at church, but by the way we live our daily lives. Worship services at church are awesome,
and I’m glad we do them, but my everyday, every minute worship with my life is
what is truly rewarding.
God has been revealing a lot to me
regarding worship, and the purpose of me starting this blog is to share some of
the things that God has put on my heart regarding worship and my relationship to
Him. I have never thought of myself as a blogger, but I thought I would give it
a go! I hope that the things that
I share minister to you like they have ministered to me.
-Jason
-Jason
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