Heart of Worship

I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it when it's all about You. Yes, it's all about you Jesus. How true that is and how sorry I am.

Heart of Worship

When the music fades
And all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart

I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the ways things appear
You're looking into my heart

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
It's all about You Jesus

King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath

I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart

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
It's all about You Jesus

Its all about You
Jesus

As we were singing this song last Sunday night in church it really hit home with me. Our last week in Indonesia we taught this song to the kids in the children's home to sing on Sunday morning in their church. Teaching it to the kids started out as a bit of a train wreck. I think we were reluctant just to get it taught (I must add though that by Sunday it sounded great). We never did have it translated into their language for them to understand what it was they were singing. The thing is, it is in my language and yet while we were there I totally missed the meaning of it.

When we were teaching it I felt like we had four people singing it each with our own slight variation of some sort, not to mention the kids who had never even heard the song before also had their own tune for it going on. I'm used to hearing it one way so to me that's the "right" way. Then we would practice it so many times that the kids would get restless; I would get restless. This is what my focus was on. This is what I made it.

I made it about me. I made it about how I wanted to hear it. I made it about what I wanted to be doing instead of going over it for the 4th time in a row. It's not about me. It's all about You, Jesus.

There is no right or wrong way to sing a song when you're worshiping the Lord. "When the music fades all is stripped away... I'll bring You more than a song for a song in itself is not what You have required...It's all about You Jesus." The music means nothing if the intentions are not right. It's about why we are praising the Lord. Why, not how (how, as in song, prayer, scripture, etc.). What is in our hearts and in our minds as we lift this song up to the Lord? Are our hearts and our minds really on the heart of worship-Jesus? "You search much deeper within, through the way things appear, You're looking into my heart. I'm coming back to the heart of worship and it's all about You." Everything we are is because of Him and everything we do should be for Him. "Longing just to bring something that's of worth that will bless Your heart...I'll bring You more than a song...King of endless worth, no one could express how much You deserve. Though I'm weak and I'm poor all I have is Yours, every single breath."