I've been thinking a lot lately about worship. I know that it is important to come together with other Christians and worship. The most obvious place to do this would be on Sunday morning in our local churches or chapels. I, however, work on the weekends and can't get to the chapel on a regular basis. This has been an area of my life where I have felt guilt for not being able to make that simple gesture for the Lord.
I have been blessed here at Fort Lewis with a wonderful group of women who meet every Wednesday morning to join together and praise the Lord and study together. The women of PWOC have made a huge impact on my life and have been such an inspiration to me. This has been a place of regular weekly worship for me but I continue to feel I need to be also worshiping with others outside of this group. When I am able I attend the Main Post Chapel for Sunday services. I love that my son can go with me and attend Sunday School and he too can learn about the Lord. One Sunday I picked him up from his class and all he said was, "Mommy, we learned about Jesus again." Or having him attend VBS and hearing him shout at random, "God is good. He is with me always. Fear not!"
In the past weeks I was feeling particularly guilty because I was scheduled to work and would not be able to attend chapel that week. I work with senior citizens and was scheduled to be with a retired Army Colonel. I was there to assist him but his wife was happy to sit and visit. She asked if she could watch a program called "The Hour of Power." I had not seen this program before but it was a church service that she could watch from their apartment. We quietly listened to the program and when it was finished she started telling me about how she enjoys to watch it on the weeks she can't attend her regular service. Now that her and her husband are older they can't attend as easily as they once did. She likes to turn the program up loud enough that her husband can hear it in the next room.
This was a great lesson to me in other ways to worship. Her and I joined together that Sunday and praised the Lord. We shared together and we prayed together. I really felt like I was meant to be there instead of my regular weekly service.
That was the last time I worked with the Colonel because he passed away later that week.
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." 1 John 1:7
"But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God." Psalm 55:13-14
"Come let us bow down in worship, Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." Psalm 95:6
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:25
I have been blessed here at Fort Lewis with a wonderful group of women who meet every Wednesday morning to join together and praise the Lord and study together. The women of PWOC have made a huge impact on my life and have been such an inspiration to me. This has been a place of regular weekly worship for me but I continue to feel I need to be also worshiping with others outside of this group. When I am able I attend the Main Post Chapel for Sunday services. I love that my son can go with me and attend Sunday School and he too can learn about the Lord. One Sunday I picked him up from his class and all he said was, "Mommy, we learned about Jesus again." Or having him attend VBS and hearing him shout at random, "God is good. He is with me always. Fear not!"
In the past weeks I was feeling particularly guilty because I was scheduled to work and would not be able to attend chapel that week. I work with senior citizens and was scheduled to be with a retired Army Colonel. I was there to assist him but his wife was happy to sit and visit. She asked if she could watch a program called "The Hour of Power." I had not seen this program before but it was a church service that she could watch from their apartment. We quietly listened to the program and when it was finished she started telling me about how she enjoys to watch it on the weeks she can't attend her regular service. Now that her and her husband are older they can't attend as easily as they once did. She likes to turn the program up loud enough that her husband can hear it in the next room.
This was a great lesson to me in other ways to worship. Her and I joined together that Sunday and praised the Lord. We shared together and we prayed together. I really felt like I was meant to be there instead of my regular weekly service.
That was the last time I worked with the Colonel because he passed away later that week.
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." 1 John 1:7
"But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God." Psalm 55:13-14
"Come let us bow down in worship, Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." Psalm 95:6
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:25
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