We often wrongly assume that the most publicly active person is also the most privately spiritual and that, likewise, the least publicly active is the least spiritual.  You’ve probably experienced being impressed by someone’s expressive worship. 

You might have wondered if he or she was engaged in “better” worship and may even have emulated that person’s worship in hopes of improving your own. When we are led in worship, we often get the impression that being outwardly demonstrative is the most important aspect of the worship act.

Many Christians equate worship with external expressions—singing, clapping and playing musical instruments. There is anassumption that the worship part of the service is the musical part. When the singing stops, we are finished worshiping.
Yet worship should be the highest priority for every Christian.

It is fulfilling the first and greatest commandment. It is our first obligation to our Creator and Savior. Worship is our full-time occupation when we get to heaven.

Worship is an attitude of the heart—an attitude of awe and adoration. Worship is not an external expression, but a love response to a relationship. Singing, bowing, dancing or lifting hands are, at best, the mere expressions of love. The inner attitude determines the worship
integrity of the external expression.

The external world is the public, visible dimension of our lives. It consists of work, play, possessions, and a host of acquaintances that make up a social life. It is what we see, hear, feel, and touch.  This outer world is the focus of much of our lives.