Why You Forget God When Life Is Good | Here’s Why It Happens

I mean, I've had you know, listen. I've been at many sports events. I've been at many concerts. And, like, when good things happen, when your team makes the playoffs or wins that playoff game, man, the whole place just erupts, and we're screaming at the top of our lungs. I think events where I've left with no voice. My voice is completely gone. Right? Because we've been screaming so much. But why do we lose our voice over a game or over a concert and yet hold ourselves back from worshiping the god who saved us? [00:21:32] (31 seconds)  #LoseYourVoiceForGod

Like, joy was never meant to stay inside all bottled up in there. It was meant to turn into worship itself, rearranging, reposturing our hearts towards worship. And this is how your worship grows, not by staying comfortable in your own skin, but by responding fully to a loving and amazing and great God with all of ourselves. Ryan, what's fascinating about this is it's not just spiritual. Like, this is how God designed us. This is how he wired us. Right? This is how we become a a fuller expression of ourselves. [00:29:40] (36 seconds)  #JoyTurnsToWorship

Because the song your heart is singing, it's about what you're valuing the most in life. Right? It's it's it's where your attention is focused. It's where your energy itself is kinda moving towards. It's where your emotions are being built, what you're building upon. And so understand, we are all worshiping something. Right? We talked about this last week. We're all worshiping something. We all have things that we give all of our devotion to. Right? We don't get to decide if we worship. We only get a choice in what we choose to worship. [00:14:12] (33 seconds)  #ChooseWhatYouWorship

Guys, the same amazing moment, and it was. It was an amazing moment, but two very different responses. The king humbled himself in worship regardless of who could see him. He didn't care who was looking, who was looking on, who was watching. He didn't care about their judgment. He didn't care about their embarrassment. He just worshipped with all his mind. But Mikhail was so concerned about image and what others thought about her, about her husband, she missed out on the whole experience of God's very real presence with her. [00:23:58] (35 seconds)  #WorshipBeyondImage

I want you to say it first. I want you like like, can we just acknowledge in a moment where something good happens, even if it was our own skill, our own gift that brought this thing to us, can we just acknowledge out loud God's involvement? That God was with us. Like David, the sword from David. Right? Like, he acknowledged. He celebrated that even though he was the king, he was being celebrated. He was actually celebrating God's goodness to him in that moment. So we wanna say it out loud, but then we wanna sing it. [00:47:54] (31 seconds)  #AcknowledgeGodOutLoud

Right? Because for a lot of us coming out of Easter, man, life feels good, don't it? And our bottom line for the for today is when life is good, let your joy turn into worship. When life is good, let our joy, the joy, that goodness that we're feeling, let's respond to that with a posture of worship. And this is why it's important. It's because oftentimes, it's when life is good, guys, that's when we tend to actually lose our worship. [00:12:26] (32 seconds)  #CelebrateGodInGoodTimes

But, guys, I believe that God wants all of our worship in all situations, in all seasons of life, especially when life is going good. Right? When when life is going well. Because here's the thing, God is always good, and we have to be able to reflect on his goodness, especially when life is going well for us. And so we've gotta train our souls day in and day out through all the different seasons. We've gotta train our souls to unlock that personal song that is stirring inside of us, right, as we discover the sing in every situation, [00:17:55] (39 seconds)  #WorshipInEverySeason

In fact, it's my prayer that as a church with all of us coming from such different backgrounds that we would judge less, and maybe maybe we would ask more questions. Let me let me tell you why. You see, again, I grew up in a more conservative church circle as a kid where, like, you didn't raise your hands. Right? You didn't lift your hands, you know, at all. Right? And so emotional expression worship, it was it was kind of a foreign concept to me growing up even as a young adult. But as I got older, I started attending churches where they were a little bit more expressive in their worship. [00:26:08] (31 seconds)  #AskMoreJudgeLess