I love being a Worship Pastor, I feel grateful, humbled, privileged and sometimes unqualified...This weekend was one of those moments...I looked at my husband and said "how do you lead in difficult moments...cancer, financial loss, job loss, longing to have children...you name it...we (the land of the living) are walking through it, and I don't want to stand and sing songs that seem cliche or to stand up in front and say I have answers that I don't...sometimes it is hard to lead...
...so take last night, I was reading in Exodus (2nd book in the Bible) where God asked Moses to go tell Pharaoh to "Let my people go"...well, Moses felt very unqualified, but God told him He would be with him and would be at work (Wendy Paraphrase)...so after many attempts at telling Pharaoh to release God's people and after many NO's...Moses felt discouraged and felt like an unqualified leader...the Israelites were scared and the future was unknown AND YET God said...Trust Me and See what I will do...
Indeed God is the unchanging One in this process called life...He knows each of our tomorrows...He tell us "not to worry" and to "Fear Not"...admittedly hard to do in our own human strength...Our very help comes from the LORD...so we can lift our heads with confidence and start to see that He is LEADING, He KNOWS and He SEES...
I copied this from the blog of a Worship Pastor and thought I would share it here...pretty powerful stuff
In Scripture, God never gives us the command to praise him without giving us reasons to do so. In Psalm 150 we’re told to praise God for his mighty deeds and his excellent greatness. We see the same thing in Psalm 103, where David tells us to bless the Lord and then gives us multiple reasons why. Here’s what he says:
Psa. 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
So...my random thoughts...if you are still reading this :D
Let's lift our eyes to the One who is SAVIOR the One who has REDEEMED us from the pit...the One who has shown COMPASSION to His children and to the One who's MERCIES are NEW EVERY MORNING~
