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Whatever needs to be done in our lives, there are people who are anointed for it. Actually, if we don't allow them to do the part God sent them to do, they become frustrated and so do we. When the time came to decorate the building, I got very involved, but it was a short-term project and something I enjoyed. I stayed out of the rest of it, and my husband did an outstanding job. We should all occasionally take an inventory of our activities, and make sure we are giving ourselves to our priorities.
Although we certainly want to get involved and help people, we must not get out of balance. There is a difference between godly involvement and entanglements. We can even get entangled in our own needs. We can stay so busy trying to provide for ourselves that we miss God's will. In essence, that is what happed to the soldiers of Gideon who bowed and put their face in the water. They were so emotional about having their thirst quenched that they missed God's will for them. We must be on our guard against getting entangled and trapped....
Obviously, there is supposed to be an inner heart attitude that comes first, but one of the words that is used frequently to describe worship speaks of an outward posture, as seen in 2 Chronicles 20:18. STAND UP AND PRAISE GOD And some Levites of the Kohathites and Korahites stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice. 2 CHRONICLES 20:19 Get a picture of what happened in this situation. First, everybody bowed down to worship the Lord. Then, some of them stood up and started to praise God with a very loud voice.