Broken Praise (5/7/2023)

Worship Jesus: It Has Nothing to Do With Volume - Broken Praise (Ezra 3)

 

Ezra 3:13, "The joyful shouting and weeping mingled together in a loud noise that could be heard far in the distance."  It was loud!  Our lives are a mingling of brokenness and wholeness.  We are renewed, restored, made right. But at the same time, we are sinful, fragmented, and fractured. We are not as we should be. We very much live in a world of the Kingdom realized, but not yet. There is a tension in our worship. The picture of weeping and rejoicing is a great picture of the broken condition that we bring to our worship.

Worship Moment: Tôwdâh

Psalm 56:11-12, I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals do to me? I will fulfill my vows to you, O god, and will offer a sacrifice of thanks for your help." while we often try to hide our brokenness, and we do not want others to know our frailty - how ironic it is that  when we confess our failure that our worship becomes a thing of praise overflowing out of a grateful heart. We should be broken (weeping) and at the same time rejoicing.