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If you were created for something, you enjoy it. Life seems to have this fearfully awesome general principle.

My first trip sailing, I learned the happiness of the created performing its duty. The wind finally caught the sail and transformed the flapping chatter into a billowing peace. We were thrust through the water. With smooth wind in our smiling faces, we each looked with awe at the sail and carried the unsaid thought, "There is no doubt the sail is happy."

It is awesome to me that there were singers that had a duty to sing in unison in 2chron5:13. It was their duty to be heard in unison and praise and thank. They were given the gift and it was their duty.

The obvious question is "what is our created role?" or "what is it that we enjoy?" That we were made for worship is the overwhelming transforming realization of my life. It is rooted in the principle that all is done for the glory of God. Yet,

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.( Romans9:22)

Some people, all of us at times, may enjoy folly! It is an extremely heavy weight of glory that should immediately humble us. "God will get his glory one way or another." (Lyrics to Destructor) We should often be on our face, longing God to make us to enjoy worship.

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ( Romans8:21)

Oh, God open our hearts and our minds so that we may enjoy to worship you. Make us worshipers that enjoy. Please keep our passions from being the following:

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator... For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. ( Romans1:25-26)