The heart of worship is surrender.
I am beginning to love the word surrender. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any masochistic tendencies and I don't intend to have one. I am a sadist, to confess. Well, at least, so far. I find it conventional to think about surrender as having negative implications. Beyond such sheer conventionality, the word "surrender" can be turned to encapsulate a winning streak especially when it is willfully done in honor of someone or something, such a high cause that can stir fulfillment to the desires of the human soul-the inner unadulturated self.
Surrendering to God in love is indicative of surrender as a winning streak. Of course, I have to emphasize that such willful surrender is always accompanied by the First Premise: believing in God. The purpose of surrendering goes parallel with the purpose of pleasing him. And God seems to be pleased by exercising 'human-ness' and through the act of worship. It is with the former that we live up to the reason of why we are created and it is with the latter that we establish and strengthen our connection with him as our Father.
Worship, however, is not just a mere utterance of songs and praises to glorify him. Worship, I believe is more of an admission of our limitations as human, thus, a fortification of the word surrender. It is an acceptance that we can not be like God whose infinity and being we can never ever surmise. After all, all human attempts to do so ended futile as human history is suggestive of it. To surrender also means to give up one's entire self to be aligned with God's purposes. This volitional surrender is of course founded on faith, strengthened on trust, and demonstrated by obedience.
Lastly, surrender means paving the way and pinning down what God wants us to become even if entails going against the current. Surrender is never losing, but winning the heart of God. And by far, it is the purest, unadulterated account of worship.
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