The Power Of Worship

Unity Through Worship

At our church children aren’t always with adults during praise and worship time. Often they are attending age-appropriate services where the message and music are geared for them. Although relaxing for parents, I believe we all miss out on something by not worshiping together.

Do you recall candlelight service on Christmas Eve when the place is packed out? As you look down the rows, people of all ages hold hands while singing “Silent Night, Holy Night.” What a sense of unity there is!

As my family stands praising God (in the services where kids are with us), I look down the row and see folks of all ages worshiping in their own way. Ahead of us there may be toddlers dancing. Behind us there may be older folks sitting.

And it often brings tears to my eyes. What must it do to Father God to hear all His children unified through worship?

Brother Andrew in “God’s Smuggler” recounts kneeling to pray with the head priest in another nation. Although they worshiped the same God, there were many differences in their personal styles and expressions.

They agreed to pray the Lord’s Prayer together, each in his own language. Andrew said two lines into the prayer it hit him that they were brothers! All differences aside, he never felt more unified with another man that at that moment.

Since time is for our benefit alone, God is not bound within our time frames. He gave night and day, seasons and years for us on earth. Age is irrelevant to Him. God has children, no grandchildren. We don’t have baby spirits, adult spirits, and “senior” spirits within us! When God looks down the row, He sees hearts.

Scripture is full of directives for parents to “Train up a child in the way he should go…” and “Teach (His laws) to your children and your children’s children…” How better to train and teach than to lead by our example?

Young children imitate our words and behavior as they grow.

Then I taught them what worship is about. That is how they learn.

In our mobile culture we’ve lost a lot of mentoring from the generations before us. The artists of several current top hits talk of realizing the impact their grandparents’ worship had on them early in life.

There’s unity in worship. Something extremely precious happens to us, and touches the heart of God when His children – of all ages – worship together.

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