This week I will discuss “active worship,” which means getting your body moving while worshiping God. After all, our bodies are His Temples. I will also include a song each day that has touched me on my running journey. 

Today let’s take time to meditate on this week’s scripture. 

1 Chronicles 4:10 NIV — Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” 

Joshua 1:9 NIV —  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV — He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV — Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Psalm 1:1-3 NIV — Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose lead does not wither — whatever they do prospers. 

Another favorite song I like to run to is, At the Table by Chris Tomlin. The lyrics sing: “There is peace at the table of the Lord, I won’t worry anymore at His table. There is healing at the table of the Lord, I won’t suffer anymore, at His table. Come all you wary, come and find, His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He is able, He will restore at the table of the Lord.” This is probably an uncommon song to run to but as active worship it is a time for me to let go of my burdens.