Worship - What Is It Anyway?

Worship is kind of a scary word. According to www.cambridge.dictionary.com, worship means to have or show a strong feeling of respect or admiration for god or a god. That's pretty crazy. I always used to talk to my mom about worshipping at church and she always liked to say she didn't like the word worship and the meaning it harboured. But the truth is, we are worshiping God. When I hear the word worship, I think music. Singing along with the rest of the church or youth group while Jesus-infused lyrics fill up my heart. That's what I think of. What about you? What do you think when you hear the w word?
 
For me, the meaning worship is simple. I boil the definition down to praising God. For some, that may be completely underwhelming and not the right answer and to others it may very well be. Worship, however you look at it, is a very important part of our relationship with God. Praising God for His works is important. Showing admiration and strong feelings is important. Other definitions I looked up talked about worship being in awe of God. Well.... how could you NOT be? Look around you!  

Ways to Worship God (in my opinion)  
1) Singing 2) Talking to others about God 3) Reading your Bible. 4) Fellowship 5) Living a Christian life

We always talk about living a truly fulfilling, meaningful, God ruled life. So if we're doing that, day in and day out, isn't that in itself worship? Praising God with everything we have with powerful emotions, including ourselves as testimonies to what we believe. Truthfully, if we are truly living a Christian life, shouldn't we be worshiping all the time? Shouldn't our whole lives be the biggest way we worship God?

Happy Saturday everyone! 
I've left you some thinking to do!