Worship

Her
shoes were on the wrong feet. She was
smaller and less coordinated than the rest of the children. She did not really know the steps to the
dance or the words to the song, but she was filled with JOY! 

I
couldn’t stop smiling as I watched this 3 year old dance one Sunday that we
spent with the Maasai tribe. In the
church we were visiting almost the whole church at some point got up in front
and preformed a song for the congregation. When the children got up you could tell they hadn’t practiced much and
that they didn’t really care, they just enjoyed the fact that they were up in
front of people to preform songs about the Lord. 

I
have watched a lot of children sing in church and I am confident that most
children’s choirs wouldn’t get up in front of the church to sing as
disorganized as they were, and if they did they might not get asked back for a
while. When did everything in church
become so well organized and need to be so perfect? When did it become about performance rather
than worship? I’m not saying that all
performances at church aren’t worship filled I am just questioning why we
practice for months for a performance and then after church at lunch we criticize
the whole performance. I’ve done it,
don’t worry this is just as much about me as it is anyone else!

As
I watched this little girl dance and sing in front of the congregation I was
overcome with joy. She’s not going to
apologize for not fitting in. She has no
clue she was far behind the other children the whole time. Her mother didn’t come and grab her out of
the front because she wasn’t fitting in or because she was embarrassing her
parents. No one told her she was doing it wrong. At 3 years old she gets worship better than
all of us, no expectations, no quotas, just follow your heart and the Spirit of
God and honor the Lord.

Her
testimony at 3 years old is POWERFUL… dance, sing and worship the Lord as he leads you and DO NOT EVER BE
ASHAMED!