June 7, 2024

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. If it were possible for a created soul fully to ‘appreciate,’ that is, to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect expression, then that soul would be in supreme blessedness. To praise God fully we must suppose ourselves to be in perfect love with God, drowned in, dissolved by that delight which, far from remaining pent up within ourselves as incommunicable bliss, flows out from us incessantly again in effortless and perfect expression. Our joy is no more separable from the praise in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds.   C.S. Lewis

I have always loved this quote!  I often wonder if we take for granted our invitation from our Heavenly Father and what our response should be to that invitation.  I pray you will join us this coming Sunday as we continue our series “God’s Songbook” focusing on Psalm 95.  We will take an in-depth look at the invitation that is extended to us from God in regard to worship and how our response requires intentionality and an active move toward God.  I hope you can join us. 

Grateful,

Pastor Brandon