From Fear to Worship

Third of Five Part Series

Prayer opens us to worship. It gives us the opportunity to rehearse a meeting we will one day have with God face to face. This changes our relationship with the fears we encounter daily in our lives.

I realize fear and worship are deeply personal subjects, yet they are also universal as well. I think it is important to recognize we live in a society that tries to ignore the one and discount the other.

We, as a society, generally pretend everything is ok while at the same time trying to patch over the pain and fears through flights into addictions. We bury ourselves in TV, movies, novels, drugs, alcohol, pornography, extreme sports, etc., hoping that our deeper disappointments with life will just go away. That's possibly why the first act of courage on anyone's part is to admit what he or she fears and what or who he or she most loves. We were made to worship and we do worship whether we realize this is what we are doing or not, it's just not always directed toward God.