better than life

I love worshiping, so when I felt my desire to go to our worship chapel ebbing I wondered what was wrong. It was just one of those whirlwind mornings, when I got up too late and had to rush around finding clothes to put on, my brush, sketchpad,etc; hectic in the small sense of the word. As I was painting in class the Psalm I had read that morning flitted in and out of my mind. I read Psalm 63, I love it -

O God, you are my God, I earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my body
longs for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Because your
love is better than life my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as
I live,and in your name I will lift up my hands.

I had to sit down in a hidden nook outside and read this Psalm again before chapel to remind myself why I worship Him. I don't go to our worship chapel just because it's required, I don't go there because I know "the band", or because of the amazing music, or the heightened emotions, or to hug all of my friends - I go there to worship because God's love is better than life. If his love is better than all aspects of life then I certainly need to continue praising Him though life can be less than ideal at times. Because that's not why I worship- I don't worship because my emotions are all lined up and pointing to it, or because God seems to be blessing my day, I worship because His love is better than life, whether that life is down in the dumps or peachy keen, in either case His LOVE is still better than life! So when you don't feel like worshiping, get over yourself and the emotions your life is prescribing, and remind yourself that His love is better than life. Worship is more than a feeling, it's a conscious choice, one that I have chosen to choose today, I hope you will choose to choose that today also. By the way, chapel was great- because of God- and I ended up being extremely blessed. There's some stuff in Isaiah I read today that I'd like to share with you later- after the class I must go to now, perhaps?

HIS LOVE IS BETTER THAN LIFE