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Gretchen Mure Rodriguez

Becoming Unrecognizable

"To worship You I live, to worship you, I live, I live to worship you." As we sang the words to this song at church, it felt like nothing else mattered in life other than being able to worship God. What a profound blessing it is to be worshipers of God! We are a people whose lives are founded upon a lifestyle of loving God and living in such a way that we exhibit His love to the world around us.

There are varying seasons of our life, some flourishing with Kingdom fruit and others spent in the stillness of His presence. But in truth, every season will bare fruit when we are worshipers of God. Regardless of whether we are in a season of stillness or business, it is to be embraced with an attitude and lifestyle of worship. 


The lifestyle of an abandoned worshiper is manifested in fearless love. (1 John 4:18) We aren't afraid to be vessels of His love towards others. We aren't afraid when things don't work out the way we hoped, because as worshipers we rest and trust that He is working things out for our good. (Romans 8:28) Our hearts are fixated on Him in stillness or in action. A worshiper is one whose life feels incomplete without the honor of pouring out love to the Lord. It doesn't matter what is happening around us, we are eternally drawn into the presence of the Lord, delighting in Him, as He delights in us. 


Our greatest desire is to be found in Him; embraced so fully by Him that we are unrecognizable! We want to bring honor to Him by allowing others to see Him in us. I remember one day, one of my daughters and I were talking and she said, "Oh, that's freaky! I just saw Jesus looking at me through your eyes!" That was the greatest thing anyone could have ever said to me. 

Let us live in a way that the Lord delights in manifesting Himself through us at all times. 

"Revive me with Your goblet of wine and refresh me again with Your sweet promises! Help me and hold me for a I am love-sick! I'm longing for more- yet how could I take more?" Song of Solomon 2:5 (The Passion Translation)


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