worship on the clock
We live in a sound and video byte world.
As of February 2011, YouTube has 490 million unique users worldwide per month, who rack up an estimated 92 billion page views each month. We spend around 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month — over 325,000 years. And those stats are just for the main YouTube website — they don’t incorporate embedded videos or video watched on mobile devices. We live life and receive info in 2-3 minute increments.
When it comes to worship, much is the same. We live out our "lives" of worship in an hour or two on Sunday. We come, soak up the atmosphere, check it off our list, and move on to the next byte. Where our treasure is...well, you know the rest. The speed of life, the velocity of activity, and the pursuit of "us" have joined hands to crowd out missional living and hearts that pursue God in the everyday--in the mundane.
Worship begins in many places, but one of those is in owning the cause of Christ. It can't be something we just pick up and admire. We are His trophies of grace, but He didn't make us so that we could sit on the shelf all week and then He gets us down on Sunday morning to dust off and admire.
Worship is found in our priorities. Worship is found in our resources. Worship is found...in time.
Those great philosophers, the Doobie Brothers, may have put it best. "One by one, we're given these moments to live, and one by one, they're taken away. What story are your minutes telling today?