All true worship is responsive. The redeemed community in Psalm 150 are exploding in worship, unhindered, free, and genuine because they are responding to Who God is and what He has done.

That is the beauty of real worship: it gets your eyes off yourself and onto the only One worthy who can ultimately satisfy and help you. A. W. Tozer: “There is more healing joy in five minutes of worship than in five nights of revelry. Nobody ever worshipped God and went out and committed suicide as a hangover.”

Are you unhindered in your praise? I don’t mean uncontrolled. You don’t have to drool, mosh, and growl for it to be acceptable worship or do the 1980’s cell phone sway. Our goal is not to rape human dignity by acting violent and frenzied as if we were intoxicated with alcohol or a drug trip. Nor is our goal is to be different to draw attention to ourselves.

Our goal is to be so amazed, so overwhelmed, so undone by the living God, that we break out in unhindered expression to our King of Kings, and consequently draw people’s attention to the living Christ! That might look like belting out in music. That might look like dancing. That might look like hands raised, eyes closed. That might look like tear-filled eyes or people on their knees. That might look like we serve an amazing God, so amazing that our worship never looks normal again.