What if everything we did was an act of worship to God from a united heart? Or is my heart divided? Just thinking today and letting it come through this keyboard…

Divided heart

We tend to divide our lives into secular and sacred. Ordinary secular life activities like daily tasks, employment, shoveling snow, washing dishes, home repairs and grocery shopping. And the sacred or spiritual part of our lives is spent in prayer, Bible reading and going to church.

Is one more holy than the other? Is one filled with God’s Presence while the other is not? Are we two different people? Split in two?

Paul encourages us to do all as to the Lord. Everything: cooking a meal, fixing a stopped-up sink. Whatever we do, he taught, was to be done as unto the Lord. Everything.

What is worship?

Worship is more than singing, prayer, or Bible reading. It is more than a mood, a feeling. It is living as an offering in every situation. We are to sacrifice our lives. Not when we die, or are killed by persecutors, but by sacrificing our daily life. Now. Keeping none of it to yourself. Giving it all up to God as a living sacrifice. It is all His.

Every daily mundane, difficult, or easy task can be filled with His presence. Everything we do or say can be holy. Even everyday conversation can be tempered by His holy touch. 

His holy Presence is ever present with us. Are we present to His Presence? Or do we ignore Him? He is with us, always; in us always. We act like we have to beg Him to be with us. He said He would never leave us.

Imagine you have a really close friend, or spouse that is with you always. What if you ignore that person most of the time? What would they think?

Let’s be ever aware of His Presence and do all for Him. Check out the scriptures listed below that I base this thinking on.

Everything we do can be touched by the holy. It can be sanctified as done unto our Lord. Wouldn’t life look different? Wouldn’t there be more joy?

Just thinking through my fingers and keyboard today…

Words to light your path this week

• Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God through Him. NKJV
• Galatians 5:13b but through love serve one another.  NKJV
• Colossians 3:23-24 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. NKJV
• 1 Peter 1:15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;  NIV
• Luke 9:23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  ESV
• Romans 12:1  Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.NIV

“One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters is the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas, the sacred and the secular. As these areas are conceived to exist apart from each other and to be morally and spiritually incompatible, and as we are compelled by the necessities of living to be always crossing back and forth from the one to the other, our inner lives tend to break up so that we live a divided instead of a unified life.”

A.W.Tozer, The Pursuit of God, Gutenberg Project EBook, p. 117

Supernatural Resources

Dear Lord, Take our lives and unite them to worship you all day long in whatever we do. Amen