18 Bible Verses About Worship, and What the Word Means Before It Means Music

Before worship in the Bible is a feeling or a kind of music, it is something the body does. The verb behind most of these passages is shachah — to bow down, to go low, to put your face toward the ground. It appears in the Old Testament more than a hundred and seventy times, and it names a posture long before it names a mood. That is worth knowing on the mornings when nothing in us feels like singing.…