Worship Pt. 2

Most people know what the smell and taste of garlic is. And if you are a cook you know you have to be careful with garlic because it permeates everything that cooks with it. I went to a Mimi's resteraunt one time for breakfast with some friends and ordered a quiche with a muffin on the side. As the muffin came out I grabbed it and snatched the butter and smeared it all over. As I took a bite I nearly gagged. The muffin was terrible. The flavor was just off. So I asked for another one apologizing because usually I just won't eat it and just won't order it ever again. But this was different. I've had good muffins before from Mimi's and I wanted a good one. So again, it comes out. Again, butter is smeared. Again, just terrible... This isn't right I thought. So I pulled off the bottom and tried it without the butter. It was perfect! Now I was confused. What in the world was wrong with the butter? I tried just the butter... And it was garlic butter they gave me for my blueberry muffin. I told the waiter what happened and he swore that it wasn't. I said taste it bro. They had been giving out butter with their muffins that was sitting in the same fridge as their garlic cloves. Oh snap is right. Was I the first to catch that?

So now back to worship. As garlic is a main flavor in every part of a dish so worship is a part of every section of our lives. In older wedding vows a part of the vow was 'with my body I thee worship'. Notice that it doesn't give a time limit or a degree of how much. It says 'all of who I am worships you. I will never give my self to anything that would take it away from you. I am yours physically, mentally, emotionally, I am yours.' Now how powerful is that when two people say the same thing towards one another, mean it, and live it? This is much more what it means to worship than just listen to music. It is all of who we are given to the one who created us. When we do this this is what the scripture in Romans 12:1 is talking about. 'And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.' NLT