The Wonder of Worship

It seems like nothing impresses us anymore. I can remember the absolute wonder I felt while watching our astronauts go into space and return again. Today, space shuttles fly into space and return with no more fanfare than a commercial airplane flight. The wonder is gone. Familiarity with the spectacular has robbed us of the wonder of space flight.Worship has become the same way to many of us. We’ve heard the music and sung the hymns a million times. We have listened to hundreds sermons and even have our own favorite super-preacher. We have refined all the techniques of worship so that nothing is new. The wonder is gone.Recently, I was with some people that began to notice the shapes of the clouds overhead. As they imagined what the clouds looked like, I remembered how I used to do the same thing when I was younger. Children are impressed by the simple things around them. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when He told His disciples to become as little children. Over the years I had gotten used to the clouds always being overhead—nothing special. What had changed? It wasn’t the clouds. They still had funny shapes that looked like one thing or another. It was me that had changed. I had just lost the wonder of it all until I was reminded by my friends.There is a marvelous wonder that accompanies true worship. Many of us, however, have come to depend so much on the props of worship that we’ve lost sight of the Person of worship. We need to return to Jesus, for He hasn’t changed. Come to Him, as a child, in worship and the wonder will never end. Jesus is the Wonder of Worship.