Worship has no “big picture”
This might seem to contradict the very core belief of why I started The Worship Journals, which is to enable us to see the larger picture. Worship in heaven is all the worshipers together, worshiping in unity. The world we live in is like a fragmented heaven. Worshipers worshiping God in various parts of the world. Practicing. TWJ intends to bring some unity to this fragmented worship and help us see the “Big Picture”
The “big picture”!
I had to ask myself, does worship even have a “big picture”? What is worships’ “big picture”? Simple answer, there is none. In fact we have to force ourselves to see the small picture. We can so easily add to the small simple picture and create a nice, refined, educated “big picture”
We were created to worship. Period. Thats the picture. It’s small enough to place in your wallet.
After all Jesus said we have to be like children. Children don’t see big pictures. Children see the simple picture, which I just say “small picture” to paint a contrast and some (bad) puns.
This realisation made me sit up as I was driving back home and helped me to stop arguments, processes, my world views and simplify things. There is no big picture. Nothing to chase, no dreamy goals. There is more truth packed into a small picture than any big picture.
Recently, one night as I lay in bed trying to imagine that if God were to paint a picture that captured worship, I got an image of simple pencil sketch in the middle of a large canvas. So little to understand, so much to learn. So much to confuse the wise. So little to understand, for a child.