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Over the Christmas holidays my brother-in-law told me that earlier in the week he had gone into a grocery store and on his way in he ran face first into the glass doors of the store.  Boom!  He said that he had expected them to open for him and his face and pride were paying the price of his assumption. 

This got me thinking, (later of course I laughed for awhile) I’d have to say that I’ve done this a lot… spiritually of course.  How many times have I walked into a worship service and just expected the band, the show, or the lyric to open the doors of heaven for me.  How many times have I just expected that my energy and effort is not needed to experience true worship.  That simply me walking in the door triggers some mystical censor and boom I’m in the presence of God.  No work on my part, no pure motives needed, just simply by walking in the door its suppose to happen, God will just unfold everything simply because I walked in. I realize that if God wants it to be that way then it can, especially for people whose attention he’s trying to get, but us “seasoned” and “mature” folks should know better.  Worship is all about God, all about us giving Him the attention and energy that he deserves, its not about warm bodies singing songs in unison.  I’ve heard this before and I’ve even probably said it at some point, “when I worship it feels like God is no where near me and when I pray the ceilings are brass” yada yada yada. Maybe its because we are standing outside the door, stuck in uneventful worship because the doors of heaven don’t just fling open because you walk toward the door, they fling open because you grab the handle and throw them open.