I was reminded again that offering ourselves as living sacrifices is an act of worship while i was reading Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure Purpose Driven Life Series small group guide:
Don't know why we often focus on the Sunday's praising and teaching part and forgot about our day to day sacrifices we need to offer to God. One of the most important sacrifices i see is the time we spent interacting with God each day and we do this not for our own sake but for God's pleasure."Paul envisions worship as an all-day-long surrender (sacrifice) to the will of a merciful God (See Romans 12:1-2). The acts we normally think of as worship – singing, celebrating and so on – are meant to train our hearts for this all-day-long surrender. Praise prepares us for surrender.
Praise is acknowledging a good quality in something…we can praise someone for his talent..etc. Similarly we can praise God for his good qualities-faithfulness, justice, power or wisdom. Worship goes beyond praise. Worship is acknowledging someone or something as the ultimate source of good, of life itself. Therefore, only God deserves worship.
Another difference is that praise is a 1-way compliment, while worship is a two-way interaction. Worship happens when we let God catch us up in the marvel of who he is, and we taste the intimacy of eternal life together with God. "
~cC
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