Saturday Symphony | We Are Called

Come now is the time to worship

Come now is the time to give your heart

Come just as you are to worship

Come just as you are before your God

A clarion call in a beautiful, simple song.

Come! Now is the time to worship.

Notice that it doesn't say where. Or how. Doesn't even indicate when.

Just an uncomplicated call to worship.

I sometimes think we put too much emphasis on the where or when, and spend no time on the how. Think of the places Jesus and his disciples worshipped.

Roadsides. Camps. Wilderness. On a mountainside. No one cared what people wore when they came to worship. Jesus didn't say it had to be a certain day of the week when you prayed. All he asked is that you did - pray.

Worship.

Come! Just as you are before your God.

So many people stress the need to go to church in their "Sunday best". I was certainly raised in that mindset. And I understand why - if you are going to worship in a holy place you should take great care with how you look. You will be in the presence of God and he deserves that kind of attention to detail.

Or does he?

To be sure it is respectful to be properly dressed when going to any kind of church. But I believe that God is more interested in us, than in our fashions.

God - wants our hearts. He wants all of us - body, mind, soul. The wrappings don't really matter. It's that we give ourselves to him. However we can.

It's about the worship.

Come! Worship!