What is worship?

What is it meant to look like?
Is there a difference in how humans worship versus the rest of creation?

Worship is a meeting with God and recognizing him for what he is, a supreme being. Worship is admitting that something other than yourself is worth your glory and attention.

Worship can take on many forms. The most common is singing, dancing, and praise. Yet is this it? Is worship this physical and emotional response? I say no. Worship should ALWAYS be a spiritual response first. Then, as you approach God spiritually, let whatever desires come be performed, be it an emotional response (crying, becoming exuberant, joy, etc.), a physical response (singing, dancing, jumping up and down,etc.), or an intellectual response (reading the bible, prayer, etc.). For many people, this is reversed. They respond first emotionally, physically, or intellectually to a problem and then spiritually. Sometimes the leap to the spiritual response doesn't happen, and we feel like we are just going through the motions, because we are. That spiritual connection to God is what makes us feel refreshed, what makes us feel good. All good things flow from Him. For those reading this, I would challenge you, as you worship God in the future, to ensure your first response is spiritual. Do not sing, or dance, or do anything but search for God and look for that spiritual connection. Then, as you find that, lose yourself in God, and do what feels natural, what feels right. Do not be embarrassed. Do not feel out of place as you search for God while others sing and dance. It is not about exterior appearances, or exterior actions. It is about the interior.

How does creation worship God? By doing what God designed it to do. A watchmaker takes pride the first time he puts all the pieces together and sees it ticking once a second. God does the same thing. He gains pleasure at seeing the grass grow how and where he planned it too, for the birds singing and eating and reproducing, for the world to be acting how he made it. We fit into this too. We give glory to God for acting how he has planned us to act. We dont have to even be thinking about God as we do this for it to be a worship to him. Just look at how intricate and cool the human body is, think about how fast the blood is racing through your veins as you read this, how the breathe you take in is used. It is all a miraculously well tuned machine. There are so many back-ups and fail-safes built right into our bodies. So, therefore we dont have to be singing at a wall, or reading the Bible to be worshiping God, we simply have to be human, and try to follow God's plan and will, as we see it.