Choose to Worship

"Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God." Psalm 42:11

Worship is a choice. This passage reminds me continually that David didn't have it altogether, and he didn't try to pretend he did. He knew he didn't and in that moment told his soul to praise the Lord.

There are days where praising God is the furthest thing from my mind. In fact it's so far that I won't even turn on my music because I don't think that I can praise God. But it's in those moments that I should be crying out to God and worshipping Him for who He is.

He is beautiful, He is soooooo amazing. And yet it seems that I personally will worship Him mostly in the great times, sometimes in the okay times, but just mainly the great times. I want a new perspective, I want to worship in the hard times as much as I worship in the good times. I want to praise my God in those difficult trials, because of who He is.

Last Friday I had a really bad day. I woke up extremely grumpy and it just got worse from there. By about 10 in the morning, I just wanted everything to be over, I wanted to curl up in my bed and never come off it because I just felt so depressed and down. Normally on days like this I'll leave my Ipod alone because like I said earlier, I don't want to praise God, nor hear others praise God. Now I think it's not that I don't want to praise God, I think in those times it's more of a "I can't praise God because life stinks, I have no reason to praise Him" mentality. But for some reason I decided to turn on my music. Within a few hours, I began to start really thinking about worship, and in that moment, though my soul felt weak and tired, and weary and I wanted to just give up, I forced myself to worship. And things inside began to change. Though the circumstances around me stayed the same, my view of God and what He could do in my life began to change as I recognized that I worship not because my life is great, but I worship because my God is great!