Losing the Wonder of Worship

“His Name shall be called Wonderful….”

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. But now, the wonder is gone.
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. 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. Over the years, however, I had grown used to the clouds always being overhead. They weren’t special anymore.
What had changed? It certainly 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 the clouds 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 real Person of worship. The wonder and magnificence of worship has been lost in the familiar rudiments of the weekly church service.
Get back to Jesus this Christmas season, for He hasn’t changed. If you come to Him as a child you will experience the wonder once again. Perhaps it is time you reacquaint yourself with the Wonder of Worship.