Made To Worship

"Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong".

This level of worship is a challenge to me. These verses have been very real to me over the past 7 or 8 years but I hadn't paid much attention the the final verse. Job lost everything - the four corners of the house came in and took his whole family and all that he had and yet he did not sin i.e. he didn't wrongly blame God for all the pain in his life. Job seems to have grasped God's sovereignty and accepted it regardless of the level of pain he was experiencing.

Job's perspective comes into line with Jesus' words as recorded in Luke 12:15 - our lives don't depend on the abundance of things we have, we will end up in a sorry mess they do. Over the past number of weeks I have had one over-riding thought throughout the day -'Life is but a breath'. I can't get this out of my head!!!!!! I am struck by the temporary nature of life and how this is my one opportunity to worship. I can't just expect to have time to fix my gaze, I need to re-align myself now and ensure that worship is integrated into my daily life.

What can I do to bring a purer form of worship through the painful times? How can I bring genuine worship before a God who I really don't understand? I am struck by the fact that worship is so much bigger and greater and deeper than I can even begin to articulate or comprehend. Something happens between my spirit and God that I have no control of. I am led to worship from a depth that is beyond choice. We often talk about choosing to worship but we have been Made to Worship.