Foundation of a Cookie

So my last post was about music and singing to God well, guess what that was the exact same message given at church yesterday!   Worship and how important it is in everyday life.  My pastor said that worship is the ice cream of the ice cream Sunday.  Now I don’t eat ice cream Sundays, I do however, eat the cookie monster at Cheddars so my analogy will be the cookie monster J.  For those of you unlucky souls who have not had a cookie monster allow me to explain….a warm chocolate chip cookie (not just any cookie, I’m talking a BIG ‘OL cookie) straight from the oven with 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream, fudge, caramel, whipped cream, nuts and a cherry on top (thank goodness for the technology age of typing on a computer because if I were writing you a letter the ink would be smeared from my drooling)….whew all worked up now. 

Anyway, most people, probably 90% of people just kind of go through the motions when it comes to worshiping at church, you may mumble, you may clap, or you may just stand that and read the lyrics (such as my husband).  Heck even my pastor admitted he’s the type to just mumble a little.  Now if you had read my last post you KNOW that I DO NOT just stand there, I sing, I clap, and yes I cry.  It is the most important part, it prepares me, it opens my heart to listen and feel what the Lord has laid on my pastor’s heart to preach to us that day.  As he went on about the sermon he said that worship is the foundation.  Girls, it’s the cookie, it’s the best dang part…it’s the warm, gooey, yumminess of the whole treat (man I need a wet vac to get all this drool up)!!  If it weren’t for the cookie there’d be no cookie monster and if it weren’t for the worship your heart may not be as open to hear God’s word.  Does that mean that your heart isn’t open at all?  Of course not, but let’s please Him and open our hearts 100%, breath in His word and let it pour out in song to praise Him.  There were a few points made in our sermon that I’d like to share with you:

·         Worship expresses gratitude to God I a meaningful way to Him.

·         Worship recalibrates our warped perspective.

·         Worship connects our heart to God’s in an authentic and deep way.  It pleases Him, He rejoices with us. 

Each Sunday after my husband and I hear the sermon we like to sit and talk about what we learned and what we are walking away with that week.  Well, this sermon really spoke to him.  He told me he normally doesn’t sing but it isn’t because he doesn’t like to worship or doesn’t enjoy that time it’s because he’s not a good singer.  (isn’t that cute?).  I told him God doesn’t care, to Him we all sound beautiful especially when singing in unison and praising Him.  I told him to picture when the kids were younger and when they brought him a picture that they drew just for daddy.  It was ugly, the coloring was out of the lines, you couldn’t tell if it was a dog or a person, and the spelling was “I lobe u daddy yur the bist” and remember how proud you were?  How happy it made you feel that your child worked so hard on this drawing, and that she/he did it just for you?  That is EXACTLY how God feels.  He doesn’t care if you’re on tune, if you mess up the words, if you sing it too fast or too slow because you’re singing it for Him.  You are dedicating this song to Him.  You’re telling Him how wonderful He is and He means so much to you that you’re taking the time to sing and rejoice about it.  Our God is an awesome God, He forgives without thinking twice, He loves with no conditions and He doesn’t play favorites (wow I feel like a bad parent now, don’t you? Lol).  Carl said that from now on he will sing, regardless of how bad he sounds because God wants to hear him and loves his voice regardless if anyone around him doesn’t. 

Something else on my heart:

Now let me say that I felt pretty dang good about myself because I do sing and worship, I love this part of church…however, let’s face it I’m not perfect (pretty close, like 99% perfect but not quite 100%) hahahhhahahaha now isn’t that a funny joke?  Me perfect?  Any of us perfect?  Yeah, right!  None of us are perfect and we shouldn’t pretend to be.  We should be authentic and come as we are.  Just because Raynisia, myself and Reda (our prayer warrior) write these blogs and pray for each and every one of you by no means makes us perfect.  That ladies is what this blog is all about.  We don’t have a degree in God, we don’t have our MBA in Perfect Christian Society of Texas, and we don’t claim to.  Please know that we are just as messed up, stressed out, crazy, and lost as all of you.  We wanted to put this blog together so that you feel like you are hearing from normal everyday women who are trying to get through this very hard, very tricky world that we live in and the only way we can do it is as a team of Christian ladies, Team God!  Life is hard, heck we all know it, just turn to God.  Give it all to Him, only He can help.  Life is so inconsistent and hard it’s a crazy roller coaster with no handles, but it does have a pretty fantastic safety net.  No matter how inconsistent our life is know that God is steady, He is the most consistent of them all and our lives should be defined by Him and His consistencies not by our difficulties.  Turn to Him always in the good and the bad. Psalms 73:28 reads But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.   Read that first part again it is good for me to draw near to God it’s good to be near to God.  To just know He is there and He has a plan. 

Now if some of you are reading these blogs trying to figure out who these God and Jesus guys are and are not Christians that’s ok too.  Keep reading, keep exploring, keep enjoying, and please, please ask questions.  Again, we are by no means an expert on the subject but we are all happy to share our stories and help you along the way as much as we can.  What we can’t do God can.  We are happy to share what is on our heart everyday and hope you enjoy it.   We hope and pray this blog reaches out to each and every one of you. 

Be extraordinary.