Finding God in unusual places
The last year I’d say I’ve been on a journey, I’ve discovered that actually feelings towards sung worship change
I’ve found that worship songs don’t always hit the nail on the head for me…
I’ve found that I’m left wanting something more from worship
at the same time I acknowledge that worship thankfully isn’t about pleasing Mark but pleasing God
as a result of this I think I’ve been learning two things…
firstly learning to worship God even when I’m not in the mood…acknowledging that God is more important than grumpy Mark
SECONDLY I’M LEARNING TO FIND GOD IN UNUSUAL PLACES
(and to stop doing a Rob Bell and doing 1 line paragraphs!)
I was watching an interview with Paramore on youtube at a church in America and the very lovely lead singer Hayley Williams was talking about how when you’re on tour and you can’t get to church every Sunday you learn to find God in other places…and actually when you work for a church or find that church doesn’t always work for you or perhaps if you happen to be super-spiritual you learn to find God in unusual places too.
I’m a massive fan of music and so often the finding of God has been in songs from artists whether Christian or not….back when I was in year 10 and I bought New Found Glory’s ‘Sticks & Stones’ the song Sonny spoke to me, a while back I posted on a Five Iron Frenzy song that got me thinking about God, I wear a hoodie with the Relient K lyric ‘It’s the beauty of grace that makes life not fair’ on the back and more recently I’ve even found God in sections of Lily Allen’s new album (which is surprisingly good!).
It’s interesting to find God in places outside of church because you get a different perspective of things, you find that people who don’t talk the church-lingo often have some interesting things to say about God whether you agree or not but they get you thinking about Him and I heard someone say that ‘whenever your mind turns back to God it’s an act of worship’
So don’t rely on church to provide you with God (even if you get the manufactured lights & smoke version of the almighty one) but go fishing…or rather searching for Him…you never know God may be behind the sofa all along…or in that new CD from Blink 182 when they release it in the summer!
