Wasteful Worship

There is something about spending hours doing something that no one will ever see that most people...well they kind of really don't like it at all. We see the end result of what we want to achieve, or of what needs to be accomplished, but don't calculate the unseen moments. For example a photographer who takes hundreds of photos to possibly get the one shot they love, or the dancer who spends hours upon hours rehearsing a song that may get cut out of the performance, or a songwriter who throws out a hundred ideas to spend hours on one idea that goes nowhere. This isn't everyone's story, but most of us have been there. Unfortunately a lot of us don't allow ourselves to get past the rehearsing/the nowhere's/the hundreds. We get caught up in results and miss the opportunity for what we've begun to call wasteful worship. The moments with God that no one will ever see or know about, or maybe they will because we come out the other side so different for having encountered Him.

Wasteful worship is taking the time to be. To be still and know that He is God. To be in His presence. To be emptied and filled back up again.