Angels passing around me
Here i stand in awe of your beauty
Captured by your holiness
...of tears during worship. Last Sunday, was really touched by the Spirit during the worship session. When we started to sing "Lift Up Your Eyes", I was chuckling initially at first, cos I mistook this for A Hillsong piece, and was thinking in my heart " Wa piangz eh, we're going Darlene liao..."*
Lift up your eyes
All of heaven's in worship
Angels rejoice and the clouds will be filled
With the wonder of your name
With the wonder of your name
Yet the joke's on me (I guess), as the song progresses, my tears came flooding unbidden, by the time we sang the second stanza. I couldn't sing the third stanza without breaking down in public openly. So I just closed my eyes, look down and tried some deep breathing. Look up, read the lines of the third stanza as it was being sung by the rest of the church, and boy-o-BOY, was the tear ducts going into over-production.
The train of his robe fills the temple with glory
Heavenly hosts fall before him in worship
Crying Holy,Holy,Holy is the Lord God Almighty
Of course, being macho aggro, I tried to hold them back by tilting my head upwards and biting the tip of my tongue to squeeze them back into my tear ducts**. Surprisingly, that worked... for about 15 seconds. But by the time I hit the last line, I can't control as a drop of tear came rolling out...
Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty
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[Jesus said] "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." - John 4:23-24 (NIV)
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* Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against Hillsong or Darlene - in fact, their songs are superbly written, and they do lead people into the presence of God. I just feel sometimes when people tell me that they love Hillsongs or Darlene because it just makes them feel so close to God. The sorta bad vibes I get is that it's an emotional thing only i.e. the songs only made people feel good...
** Duh, not the wisest thing to do; but then again, I am NOT a wise man. :D
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