I had just welcomed my friend to THE ATTIC night of worship and the official launch of my two books "Worship Walk" (revised edition) and it's Spanish Translation "Caminar en Adoración". He had driven down from Staynor, ON to Kitchener for the event. A good two hour drive!"Why are you here?" I asked him. "You should be with your family!"
"I needed to come," he replied.
As the evening ended and we chatted some more and prayed together, he said that this night of expressing worship to God in song had been exactly what he needed. He said that time was as profound a time of inmate worship as he's had in a long time.
Death does that.
Death brings us face to face with the Author of life - Eternal Life! And when we consider the end to this life what more can we desire than to be in the presence of Jesus, our Saviour? And what we only glimpse at now through our limited (and limiting) understanding - we will then see with perfect clarity.
Paul said something about this in 1 Corinthians 13:12:
"Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." (NLT)
Death reminds us that worship isn't about us. It is about God. And all the best worship experiences of our lives wrapped up into one elegant package can't compare to the perfection of relationship we'll experience when we come face to face with God.
Enjoy the mirror we have. Just remember it is only a poor reflection, at best, of what God will reveal when this life ends and the next one begins!
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