From Judea Costes…

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In the quiet, in the stillness I know that you are God.  In the secret of your presence I know there I am restored.

When you call I won’t refuse… Each new day, again I’ll choose.

 There is no one else for me, none but Jesus.  Crucified to set me free, now I live to bring Him praise.

 In the chaos, in confusion I know you’re sovereign still.  In the moment of my weakness you give me grace to do your will.
When you call I won’t delay… This my song through all my days

 There is no one else for me, none but Jesus.  Crucified to set me free, now I live to bring Him praise.

 I am yours and you are mine…

 All my delight is in you Lord; all of my hope, all of my strength.  All my delight is in you Lord, forevermore.

There is no one else for me, none but Jesus.  Crucified to set me free, now I live to bring Him praise.
-Brooke Fraser.

I have no idea where I want to go with this one….

“None but Jesus” has become so important to me recently… I wouldn’t know how to say what this song says any other way…  Fraser definitely has a way with words.  I envy her…

This song makes me feel so peaceful… It makes me feel… right.  I’m not sure if that makes sense, but that’s the only other word that comes to mind.  I feel right when I sing this song, like some deep part of me is affirmed by my singing it.  It’s almost the same feeling I get when I suddenly remember that perfect word I was trying to say but temporarily forgot at the worst possible time, like when I’m in the middle of an intense conversation or a presentation.  The feeling is very similar to that; a sort of satisfaction, the “a-ha!  that’s what was missing” feeling.  I don’t know.

I don’t think most Christians realize exactly how important worship is… I think they just shrug it off as “that nice time of music before pastor speaks”, but it’s so much more than that… I believe with all my heart that, like Sabbath, worship is a gift God has given us so that we may delight in Him.  I feel the happiest when I’m singing my heart out to Jesus; that’s when I’m closest to him, that’s when I feel comfortable telling him anything… but usually all I want to sing about is how simply wonderful he is.  You see?  Even now I’m fishing for words that will never adequately describe what I’m trying to say, but that’s never how I feel when I’m praising; all the right words come out, whether they’re preset for me by a particular song or my heart is overflowing with expressions of awe and love.

I feel that worship not only brings us to a deeper level with God, but it also connects us as a Christian community.  We sing the same songs in unison in church on Sunday then we download the songs as soon as we get home so that we can carry them with us throughout the week.  We all know the songs by Hillsong United, Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, etc, though not always by title.  The lyrics act as a string that keeps us all tied together, keeps us all on the same page when praising.

Not sure if all this is making sense; as I said before, I’m not sure where I was going with this post [and after rereading it several times, I have decided that if I were to grade this as an essay, I would have to give it a C- for poor structure]… But I hope some of you were able to understand some of what I’m trying to say.  I haven’t even gone into the differences between worship and praise or the different forms of worship there are, but… yeah.  I think I’ve said enough for now.

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