Can You Believe We Get to Do This? CELEBRATION IS OUR SOUNDTRACK
Psalm 100 calls us to “shout for joy,” to “come before Him with joyful songs,” and to “enter His courts with praise.” There is a sound that rises from the people of God—a sound of celebration, gratitude, expectation, and adoration. It’s the sound of worship. Celebration is our soundtrack. Worship is our weapon.
And worship is not simply the opening songs of a service.
Worship is the weapon God has given us against the wandering tendencies of our own hearts.
Wandering Happens Quietly
Have you ever arrived somewhere and realized you don’t remember the drive? You weren’t trying to go there—you just ended up there because routine took over.
Life can feel like that.
We drift.
We wander.
Not into purpose—but back into patterns, fears, and habits we prayed to escape.
In 1757, Robert Robinson wrote the hymn Come Thou Fount, capturing this reality with the line:
“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.”
Even King David admitted this same struggle in Psalm 119:10:
“Let me not wander from your commands.”
Worship keeps our hearts from wandering where our feet never intended to go.
When Fear Makes Us Forget
Exodus 14 gives us one of Scripture’s clearest pictures of this tension. The Israelites had just watched God display unimaginable power—ten plagues, supernatural protection, miraculous deliverance. They walked out of Egypt on the coattails of God’s supremacy.
And then… they looked up.
They saw Pharaoh’s army coming toward them.
And the same people who had celebrated God’s rescue only days earlier suddenly said:
“Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us out here to die?”
Fear made them forget.
Pressure made them rewrite history.
Uncertainty made slavery look appealing again.
This is what wandering hearts do.
We don’t drift into freedom—we drift back into familiar bondage.
Why Worship Matters
You’ve felt this before.
You pray for freedom—from addiction, shame, unhealthy relationships, old patterns. You take steps toward healing. You find accountability. You start walking the way you’ve longed to walk.
And then something happens. A setback. A disappointment. A moment of pain or uncertainty.
Suddenly what you hated starts looking comforting again. What you begged God to remove now feels like the path of least resistance.
That’s wandering.
And this is why worship matters.
Worship reorients a wandering heart.
Worship reminds us who God is, what He has done, and where He is leading us.
Worship turns panic into perspective.
Worship keeps us from returning to what once enslaved us.
The Sound of Our House
Our house has a sound—a people who lift their eyes above their fear, above their circumstances, above their past.
A people who worship.
Not because life is easy. Not because everything makes sense.
But because God is good, His love endures forever, and His faithfulness continues through all generations (Psalm 100).
Worship is the sound that keeps us steady.
Worship is the weapon that keeps us from wandering.
Worship is the anchor that keeps our hearts aligned with the God who leads us forward.
May our house always be filled with that sound of celebration!
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