March 25, 2008

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Like a proud parent, God especially enhoys watching you use the talents and abilities He has given you. God intentionally gifted us differently for His enjoyment. He has made some to be athletic and some to be analytical. You may be gifted at mechanics or mathematics or music or a thousand other skills. All these abilities can bring a smile to God's face.

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God also gains pleasure in watching you enjoy His creation. He gave you eyes to enjoy beauty, ears to enjoy sounds, your nose and taste buds to enjoy smells and tastes, and the nerves under your skin to enjoy touch. Every act of enjoyment becomes an act of worship when you thank God for it.

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My children don't have to do anything for me to enjoy them. I'm happy to just watch them breathing, because I love them so much. As their little chest would rise and fall, I smile, and sometimes tears of joy would fill my eyes. Whe you are sleeping, God gazes at you with love, because you were His idea. He loves you as if you were the only person on earth.

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Surrendering to God is the heart of worship. It is the natural response to God's amazing love and mearcy. We give ourselves to him, not of fear or duty, but in love "Because He first loved us" 1John 4:19

Give yourselves to God...Surrender your whole being to Him to be used for righteous purposes.

Romans 6:13

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Paul urges us to fully surrender our lives to God in worship: "So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us...offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him. This is the treu worship that you should offer" Romans 12:1

True worship - bringing God pleasure - happens when you give yourself completely to God. Notice the first and last words of thet verse are the same: offer.

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