At the Center

I’ve always connected well to Luke 12:34,” For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” It speaks plainly, and clearly,  to my personal heart. It leaves no loop holes to wiggle out of, or rhetoric to creatively spin. It simply asks where and or what is our treasure.

 

You see, as I’ve come to discern, we were created to be God-centered, and sin, makes us self-centered. Knowing our weaknesses as it does, darkness intoxicates us when our knees grow weak, it intrigues us when our minds grow weak, and it attacks us when our strength grows weak. Let’s be honest, the world offers some pretty cool eye catching, taste intriguing, and thought provoking treasures.

 

So we have to arm ourselves and remain vigilant to stay on the narrow path. I’ve come to find that worship alters our center. Daily scripture time almost always leads to a wanting inside to praise and worship God. Doing so moves our focus away from self and back to God.

 

Eugene Peterson writes, “Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God.

 

Sandy Adams says, “It’s not how long, or how well, I worship – it’s not quality or duration – but intensity.”

 

Father, help us to get centered on you, and to keep centered on you. Help us to be disciplined in our attention to scripture, and to grow in our intensity of worship. Help us to treasure you.

 

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Song: At the Center (Album: Trio)