worship

Two years ago I went to a Coldplay show in Vancouver. It was really good, and gave me an emotional phyisical response, I call the warm fuzzies. Afterward I talked to a friend and she said that she found herself wanting to raise her hands in worship! This really disturbed her because Coldplay, isn't trying to get you to worship God, they are trying to entertain you. I have and know many others who in their youth sought out the warm fuzzies in worship, they were looking for a music induced emotional physical responses. In fact for many of us these moments where our first encounters with God's presence. But a maturing faith begins to recongnize that these responses( warm fuzzies) are not alway God given. and in fact can be misleading about the nature of our relationship with God. I remember feeling those same warm fuzzies with new relationship and ot
her things in my live that in fact were ungodly.
Relating to God is hard, difficult, convicting and stretching. Sometimes more like a cold glass of water in the face, or nothingness. Henri Nouwen in describing his own regular quiet time said it was a time of sleepiness, frustration, and distraction. to be honest that is more true than the lights the sound and video of the modern worship concert. I am challenged more an mor eto a depth of relationship that doesn't look like our cultures version of entertainment.