Almost every week we talk about worshiping God with our lives and the importance of living out the songs that we sing. I think there is one word God wants to speak to us today and that word is integrity.
As worship leaders, and not only that, but as followers of Christ, we are called to live a life set apart, a life of complete integrity. I’ve been thinking about this lately; I want to have integrity even in the little things, in every single thing I do. When we decide to surrender our lives to Christ it doesn’t mean we won’t be tempted or mess up but it does mean that we are trying the best we can to live a life holy and pleasing to God. It is necessary that people can look at our lives and know we are different.
1 Peter 1:14-15 says, “So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But NOW you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
Let us choose holiness. Let us be people of integrity on and off the stage so that when we lead people every weekend it is authentic and real and an overflow of our lives. We don’t do this so that we can have the glory or recognition for ourselves, we do this to bring honor to Him, to please Him, to be an example to all believers. There is no other way to follow Christ.
-Macy McKinzie