Heart Song

I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord, Psalm 122:1

How would you finish this sentence:  I was glad when they said to me, let us go to ...?  Would your answer be worship?  Would it be even in your top five?

There are many songs for the heart but this Psalm is the song of the heart.  What is is the difference?  Songs for the heart calm us and stir us.  But the song of the heart flows out of us to God as a deep expression of worship.  The Lord made us for Himself, thus we are most satisfied when we turn from serving idols (man-made gods that we make in our own image) to worshiping the One who made us in His own image. God both delights in our worship and deserves our worship. As the Psalmist also sings, “Come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.  For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand”, Psalm 95:6-7.

How can our worship honor God and “brings a smile to His face” and as a result satisfies the longing of our heart?

We are to come to God — honestly, Hebrews 10:22.  Because of Jesus Christ, we are invited to draw near to the Holy One with a sincere or honest heart. For all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do, Hebrews 4:13.  

We are to come to God — hungry, Luke 1:52. This means when we come to God, we come expecting to hear from God.  It is in a posture of worship that often times we “hear His voice, see Psalm 95:7.  Through worship, we come into His presence to look to Him and to learn from Him.  

We are to come to God — humbly, James 4:10. I read somewhere two great confessions, “Your are the Christ!”  “We are but men!”  We are not in ultimate control or even in control of the control that we think we control.  We don’t have all the answers.  The Lord, He alone is God!  He is beyond our understanding and our control.  

Yet, we are invited to feast in His presence in worship with an honest hungry and humble heart. When we do, songs of worship arise and flow from our heart to His.