I sang "The stand" while sitting down. Ironic

This past sunday I played at a church that I love visiting. The reason that I love it is because it is so different than the church that I attend. A change of atmosphere is always refreshing. This church has one mic, and one plug for an acoustic. It also has a very small congregation which is a lot more personal than I am used to.

During the pre-service meeting I was told to have the congregation sit after the second song. I have no idea why, but that's the way they like their service to run, to stand for 2 songs then sit for 2 songs. Anyways, something funny happened that sparked my mind while I was leading worship. It was the first service and there were literally 6 people in the congregation. I was excited because I love small groups. It's more challenging to me. I played the first 2 songs and it was time for me to tell them to sit. I told them they can sit if they want during these next few songs because I didn't feel like worship commanding that day. So most of them ended up sitting down. Right when the last person sat, I started the first verse of the next song which sang, "We stand and lift up our hands". I had just told these people to sit and then we are all singing these words. It made me immediately feel like a huge liar, because we were singing one thing and doing another. we weren't standing, we were sitting. We weren't raising our hands, they were folded in our laps. Not that you can't worship while doing these things, it just served as a great example of what we do as Christians.

How often do we do this in our lives? There are so many songs that we sing and praise to God but we don't live it out as followers of Jesus Christ. I remember the first time I raised my hands in church. I was singing "The stand" where the lyrics say, "I'll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned" and I looked at my self sitting down with my hands folded, and realized it was a great reflection of the way I lived my life, I sang the words, but I didn't live them.

Are you the same?

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