Welcome the Wilderness Sample

Worship Worship in the wilderness is not an option. Even in light of the overwhelming reality that it coincidentally can also be the hardest thing for us to do because of the equally real wilderness we feel stuck in. The thing is, if we can only worship when everything is going right in our lives, then we won’t fully grasp the power waiting for us in the act of worship. Worship is not always a response in the way we think it is. While sometimes we worship God for the present ways we see him moving in our lives—whether it’s an answered prayer or a family member coming to know him at last or sometimes even the fact that we have finally made it out of the wilderness— worship is a response to God’s character rather than his actions. We worship to remind ourselves how God has been faithful in the past; we worship to recall how he came through when we thought he had forgotten about us. We worship for all of the ways he has remained steadfast in the uncertain previous season, even in the generations that came before us. Worship realigns our eyes with the way God is still good even if nothing around us is. So recount, recall, rewalk, reminisce— worship. The wilderness doesn’t have to be so dark; worship is how we create a memorial of the light.