It's not about you or me. Usually when we worship, praise, or idolize something it is because we get something out of it for ourselves. When we enter worship (which we should be doing every waking moment) we should be giving Him glory because that's where it belongs. Sometimes I worship because I have to make myself feel better. As you have heard from some of my friends before God is not a pill, a rabbit's foot, or something we put in our back pocket and we just get Him out when we want. We shouldn't be asking Him to do stuff for us so we feel better. We should be waking ourselves up to His presence because He is already all around us. Rescue is already here. It is good to ask for his help to keep glorifying His name because the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, but let's not abuse His love for our own satisfaction. He doesn't force anything on us so why do we force things upon Him. I hope that as a church we don't go to God just to feel better or get filled up. If you believe in Christ, you are already full of the Holy Spirit, just wake up to it. God isn't a gas station. I pray we open ourselves up and surrender. Our attitude should be one of humility, contrite in Spirit, and trembling at His Word. So when we sing praises and live out life let's come humbly and think about what we say and what we mean about the things that come from our lips. It all depends on our heart behind the worship. "Father, will you come..." We don't sing that so he can just heal our troubles, but also that we can just rest in Him. Let's not leave Him like a gas station, let's treat Him as a resting place that we never want to leave. We sing these words so we can worship God in all of His Glory declaring we want to stay in God's presence- Let's meditate and be alive to IT. I know some of us may understand this whole concept, but let's not just understand it. Let us live it out through our heart.
"Let's meditate on God, and who He is, not your problems and how He might fix them, but just meditating on Him alone...solves all problems. It is really that simple."- Francis Chan
