The new year prompts me to pause and assess the past year. Counting my blessings, I recognize that the teams I work beside are a huge part of the good things I experienced this year. Some of you are new to the teams and in you God has brought me new friends. Those of you who have been here for a while have become even more dear to me over this year. All of you serve tirelessly bringing your best. Your best creates a synergy that stirs me to bring my best
We had a first this year. The “Come Hungry Concert” was a great success. God was lifted up, decisions were made to follow Christ and families sacrificed together as they ate beans and rice that week. The worship team grew together as we worked hard. Their talent, hours of rehearsal and personal practice laid out in surrender before God gave Him glory and blessed the church. We as a team grew in relationship as we prayed, practiced and laughed together.
As individuals you have worked on your talents by honing your gift. The music you are producing now is not what you produced a little over a year ago. You keep stretching and growing in your musical abilities. I simply praise God for each of you and admire your dedication.
This next year God has much in store for us. We may not know all the details but we generally know the path. It is one in which we see Him more clearly, love Him more dearly, and follow Him more nearly day by precious day. It is a walk of worship. This worship walk is lived out in the way we love our spouses, kids, friends and the world. That is worship. Music is a very small avenue of worship. Life 24/7 is the worship highway.
As creation participates in worship by simply being what it was created to be, we have the privilege of entering each day in worship by living out our God ordained purpose. God's purpose for me is simple. It is to love Him with everything that is within me. As a result everything I do should be motivated by this love affair with my God. I do life for Him and with Him.
I believe we make following Him complicated. We try to find the perfect will of God when HIs perfect will is spelled out very succinctly. "Love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength." Simple.
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Amen Cathy from Cathy!
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