I Hate Those Invisible Ropes
As a Christian I know that we should love the Lord with all our heart mind and spirit, and when we worship we are to have complete joy in doing so. I love the Lord, but is there something wrong with the way I worship? You see, there’s this invisible rope that is tied around my arms, right at the elbows, and this causes me to be unable to lift my arms any higher than about waist high, well I have short arms and a long torso, so maybe navel high. And the strange thing is that this invisible rope only shows up during worship at church. I stand there singing along with the worship band, getting into the worship, just wanting to reach up to God and be close, and BAM there’s those ropes. Why can’t I lift my hands? Am I embarrassed that everyone else with there hands raised would see me and they’d make fun of me? Well of course not… I think.
All through the Bible we hear of people so in love with God that they dance and sing out loud to him, and half the time I struggle to let words come out of my mouth because I don’t want anyone to hear my “singing” voice. These things kind of bother me, why am I ashamed to fully praise God in a place where everyone else is already doing it? Have I become so warped by society that I can’t fully worship my God? I just want to get over this fear, I want to be unashamed, I want to worship God fully. I wish there was some surefire formula that would help me get over this but there’s not. The way I see it is that it’s kind of like swimming, and I will never learn to swim if I don’t get in the water, even if I can’t see what’s in the water. I guess I just need to jump in, that’s all I can do. You know, now that I think about it I’ve never been a great swimmer… now I’m making excuses, someone push me in before I change my mind.
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