5 Essentials for Wise Worship - Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

My heart and mind are full of so many things. Distractions. Dreams. Worries. Demands. Ideas. Joys. Busy thoughts. The things of life: Laundry, dishes, oil changes, emails, text messages, transporting children, parenting, planning meals, a full-time job, a good dose of sitting in traffic, health concerns, wondering about the future, occasional doomscrolling on Youtube. Lots of times, my brain is pretty full and if you could hear everything in my brain (or me yours), you might wonder how my brain would possibly hear anything more from anyone. You might wonder the same about yourself.That’s pretty natural I think. And it certainly reflects the common western cultural tendencies for bustling busyness and measuring our worth in all of our accomplishments. We like to be busy. And we also don’t like it. What’s the most common response to the question: How are you? The response I hear more than any other: BUSY. Busy days. Busy people. Busy brains.None of these things that I listed above as things that fill my brain are wrong or evil (except maybe dishes, or Youtube) – but what they can create in us, when all clumped together and piled on to one another – is a distracted and divided heart – and habits that can negatively influence how we approach our relationship with the Living God.This passage invites each of us to reorient our hearts appropriately. Guard our steps as we enter worship Talk less, listen moreKeep our dreams properly orderedIn our dealings with God, don’t overpromise and underdeliverStand in awe of God