Little Children Praise You Perfectly...

Just a short one for today.

For some time my mind has been thinking about two things in combination, one being childlikeness (not childishness), and one being undignified worship. Origionally, they were independant thought patterns, but in the past month they have merged.

In the musical paraphrase of Psalm 8, the majesty and glory of your name,' it says "O Lord, our Lord, little children praise you perfectly." In the NCV version it speaks about children and babies are taught to praise by God. This got me thinking. ofton we spend a lot of time concentrating on how we as adults should worship, and how we should act and how our heart should be, but are we looking at this the wrong way.

When children participate in worship they don't make a fuss of it. They don't moan about styles and dancing or anything else. In fact, all they do (with the odd exception) is just give all out to that time of praise to their God. A beautiful illustration of this I noticed at the candidates farewell a few days ago. In one of the congregational songs, a real oldie, a boy was stood in the doorway of the main hall singing and dancing without a care of what everyone around him thought. He must have been 7 or 8, no older. Also, when I cast my mind to other meetings in most places, I can see similar pictures, just different places, songs, and faces (that would be a good line in a song).

So back to the question about whether we are looking at our personal worship in the wrong way. Jesus said about us becoming like a little child. Maybe its time we stopped looking at our worship in a sophisticated strategic way, and just became like little children, bringing our complete devoted unaffected offering to God.

"O Lord, our Lord, little children praise you perfectly; and so would we, and so would we."

Just a thought.