Physical corporate worship have ceased for a month. How has your communion with God been? When your church leaders teach and instruct you to do your spiritual disciplines, they are preparing you for a time like this. Your spiritual disciplines should have prepared you for a day like this, where you are away from the atmosphere of a worship sanctuary, yet there is a need to feel like you are in the presence of God.
Your communion with God is irrespective of your physical environment. It is not the surround sound music during worship or ambience of the sanctuary that draws you into communion with your Heavenly Father. Instead, the surround sound music is now replaced with your voice and heart of worship, pure worship that the Lord will not reject. The cross that you see at the front of the sanctuary is now replaced with the cross that you etch on your heart. The people that worship with you is replaced with Christians scatted in their own homes, worshipping the same God. Your home is the sanctuary.
“Rather train yourself for godliness”
1 Timothy 4:7b (ESV)
Disciplines are practices. The goal of practising any given discipline is not about doing as much as it is about being: being filled by the Spirit, being like Christ Jesus, being with the Father. Spiritual disciplines are means and not ends. It gets you to commune with God on your own. Corporate worship might have ceased, but the heart of worship is not in its institutionalisation.
Worship is a spiritual communion with God which your spiritual disciplines should have been preparing you for, so start doing them if you have neglected it.
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