Enjoying worship music isn’t something we need to repent for. (Not worshipping with it—that’s another issue.)
- 🎵 I’m coming back to the heart of worship
- 🎵 And it’s all about you, all about you Jesus
- 🎵 I’m sorry Lord for the thing I’ve made it
- 🎵 When it’s all about you, all about you Jesus.
That’s from a Matt Redman song. Worship leaders love it ’cause it fits them so often. So they put it in the worship cycle and the rest of us have to sing it along with them. And then we start to question what thing we might have made worship; and maybe we didn’t.
The song isn’t about worshippers; it’s about worship leaders. It’s about people who put more into their performance than into their worship. I’m not a worship leader, so it doesn’t apply to me. And yet I got suckered into thinking, “I listen to this stuff for fun. I’m losing sight of who it’s about.” God had to interrupt and yell at me.
“You’re supposed to like worship music,” he said. “You think you’re supposed to worshipme in a way we don’t mutually enjoy? Do you really think of me as a sadist?”
“But what about when I’m enjoying it for entertainment?”
“While you’re being entertained, does it make you think of me?”
“Well, yes.”
“So it’s doing its job.”
He got me thinking about that question—“Do you really think of me as a sadist?” How many times have we figured we shoudn’t be enjoying something that God made for us to enjoy because we’re supposed to be “holy”? How messed-up does that make our view of “holy” and of God?