I want to be invisible.
I realized it more and more throughout the day yesterday. I want to be invisible. And no, I’m not some weird freak who really think’s that I can be physically invisible. But I’m saying this in the aspect of praise and worship, and in the aspect of any sort of leadership in my church and in life for that matter!
Many of you who know me, know that I love to praise and worship, and that I love to sing to the Lord. Well let me kind of show you my thought pattern’s on this so you can grasp the full picture of what I want to demonstrate.
Darlene Zschech (sp?) is a worship leader in Australia for Hillsong Church. I saw her one time, live and in living color, at my old church. Well the first thing I noticed about her which was different than any other worship leader that I’ve seen is that she was invisible on that huge stage. Yes, she was leading the team, and she was singing most of the songs, but she was invisible. You could see that her one reason for being on that stage, only four small stairs up, was for the uniting of the church to participate in the utmost highest level of worship unto the Lord. It was a GROUP effort. It was as if, she didn’t WANT to be seen, but she just wanted to enter into the presence of the Lord. And that’s exactly what happened. It was like watching the Father paint a picture of perfection right before my eyes. A picture of the church united, and in one accord, solely for His glorification.
My reason for saying this, is because I got convicted yesterday about being so visible. My one desire if I’m ever on any church’s platform, is that I want to be invisible. But that only the Lord be seen in me. For year’s and year’s I’ve prayed, “Father let them only see You through me. Let them not see me at all.” But haven’t ever gotten as convicted about it as I had yesterday.
So, if you’re a leader in the church or anywhere for the Lord, aim to be invisible. It only pleases God more when we give HIM FULL CREDIT! We are not worthy of the smallest amount of credit as it is. Live to be invisible!
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I’m with you on this one Amanda – that should be the cry of all our hearts. More of HIM and less of me. Amen honey!
I totally agree with you there, sis. There have been so many times when I could and would have loved to be center stage b/c I could feel significant. I was going to Bethany for a while, and started playing keyboard in practices with Jonathan Stockstill, when right at the time when I was about to get on stage to start playing majorly, God pulled me out.
Maybe I wasn’t ready to be center stage, or maybe God knew at the time that I didn’t have that “invisible” mindset, but I”m not bitter about it.
Thanks for writing this. It makes me feel better about keeping this in the forefront of my mind.
Great blog…this should be everyone’s desire!