Pausing to worship Jesus throughout your day is a great way to stay close to your Savior. Perhaps it's meditating on Scripture with your morning coffee or singing a hymn while driving to work. Make a discipline of finding little snippets of time each day to worship Jesus and so win victories for eternity!
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Throughout the rhythms of my day, I love to pause and worship.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and it’s the way I live my days. It’s a discipline. It’s how I align my thoughts with Christ throughout the day. Here and there, in little snippets, I worship the Lord Jesus. Often it’s after morning coffee, or before starting a project, finishing a phone call, going through the mail, or before setting the table, readying myself for bed, or as sleep approaches it’s, “Bless you, Jesus, for the grace you gave this last hour, and as I head into the next, thank you for your faithfulness and your kindness to me.” I mean, it’s that short, but it’s worship. I mean just today, up at our house, I had lunch with a couple of co-workers, and as we sat around my kitchen table and enjoyed our chicken salad sandwiches, we talked freely about our faith. You know, sometimes you just have to make the conversation go in that direction, don’t you? Not just rehashing scenes from “Call the Midwife.” But no, you got to keep God in the conversation. So, okay, speaking of which, before our lunch break ended, we queued up a short scene from “The Chosen,” the one of Jesus and the woman at the well. It was only a few minutes, but, man, it was a blessing. And after it was over, we each briefly prayed, thanking the Lord for his goodness. And even that was a little snippet of worship.
Such little slices of worship are wonderfully refreshing disciplines that keep me close to the Lord during the day. And you can do it often; maybe sing a stanza of a hymn that gives glory to God; memorizing part of a Bible verse; reciting it; maybe pausing to pray before embarking on a task. My favorite time to worship, though, is a little after sunset when I wheel into our bedroom. And last night I lingered by our bay window, and as the sunset faded, I called for Ken to snap a photo. We both sat on the bay window seat, drinking in the golden glow and this rose-colored cloud that stretched on forever. We sat and watched as the colors shifted with the setting sun. And sitting there, we worshipped. And what did God do? Right there, he brought to mind Amy Carmichael’s timeless words: “We will have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sunset [in which] to win them.”
If that doesn’t inspire worship in your heart, I don’t know what will! We’ll have all of eternity to celebrate the victories that we win here – oh my goodness, my friend, the rose-colored clouds are not going to stretch on forever. Even now, the colors of this world are shifting, and soon the sun will set. There’s not a lot of time. There is work to do, souls to reach, a Gospel to give, our Savior to obey – all of which are our way of winning victories. I think of this whenever I sing a favorite stanza of this Fanny Crosby hymn, “Someday, when fades the golden sun, beneath the rosy-tinted west, my blessed Lord will say, ‘Well done!’ And I shall enter into rest.” Our souls will soon rest, our work will be over. But until then, join me in daily winning those victories for our Jesus. And you can start by offering up to God your own snippets of worship throughout your day! I trust this gives you a little hope in your hardships, and if you need a few ideas for creating those precious, short moments of worship, I’ve made a list of suggestions at joniradio.org. Just download it and start those daily rhythms of directing your thoughts through the day to God. Oh, and if you’d like to see that photo Ken snapped of that amazing sunset, I’ve also posted it at joniradio.org. Again, visit joniradio.org, and get some good ideas for worshipping your Savior.
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