Be Still And Know

Psalm 66.1-2 NLT 'Shout joyful praises to God, all the earth! Sing about the glory of his name! Tell the world how glorious he is.' When we think about worship we will naturally focus on the church community with which we meet regularly. That’s not only entirely understandable but deeply precious. We thank God for our brothers and sisters and the relationship that we share with them. But we need to be careful because worship belongs to the whole world and not just to the group with whom we worship. The psalmist’s vision was for everyone to worship God, so when we worship we should keep everyone else in mind. Because everyone has been made by God, everyone needs a relationship with him and their life will only be complete when they live in partnership with him. At the heart of our worship there needs to be a longing that everyone around us will join in with us. We see a similar attitude in the New Testament. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul spoke about the way in which Jesus took upon himself the nat