Learning To Worship

This post is from our secretary Elaine Bray

This book has spoken volumes to me. I am going through it for the third time. Some things that stood out in chapter 4 was what Batterson wrote on page 67. "Reframing problems is about shifting focus. You stop focusing on what's wrong with your circumstances. And you start focusing on what's right with God." That grabbed my attention since I was focusing on a number of circumstances in my own family; over which I had no control. They seemed to be taking a downward spiral and I could do nothing to fix the problems. Batterson went on to talk about Paul and Silas and how they could have zoomed in and complained about their circumstance. After all, they were on a missions journey and they had cast out a demon. Was this what they got? But they chose to worship God in spite of their external circumstances. In my won circumstance, nothing much has changed, but I have a peace. I can worship forgetting about what's wrong in my family and remember what's right with God. Like Batterson said at the bottom of page 67. "Nothing is more difficult than praising God when nothing seems to be going right. But one of the purest forms of worship is praising God even when you don't feel like it, because it proves that your worship isn't circumstantial."

Elaine Bray