Are Circumstances Contolling You?

Much is being written of late concerning an issue referred to as “circumstantial worship.”  The term is  used to reference how believers allow their adoration for the Father to be affixed to the level of  happiness or unhappiness the current situation brings to their life journey.   If all life’s happenings align themselves in a favorable fashion this follower, is by all appearances, willing to live in trusting faith.  However, if the tide turns,  the “circumstantial worshipper” has no problem circumventing the humble attitude of worship so they can wallow in the mire of self-pity and victimization.   The destructive nature of circumstantial worship intensifies as this type of worshiper easily develops the ability to feel completely justified in their lack of adoration to God.   

This lesson will examine the futility of circumstantial worship and extend the challenge to maintain a “purposeful worship.”  One which looks at every situation of life as though it were held within the purposeful, planning, and protecting  hands of God.  Job exemplifies such a worshipful heart.   We can, like Job, live purposefully and thus worship purposefully. 

Mark Batterson put it this way,  “Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God.  To be able to worship God when I don’t feel like it says my worship isn’t circumstantial.”

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