Do It For God

Tonight was a little frustrating. Wednesday is the night my youth group comes together to fellowship with eachother, learn about God, and worship God through song. I am on the worship team which is a blast! I enjoy using my God given talent to worship Him and help others worship him too! Tonight it was a little hard to concentrate though.
My church is pretty big when it comes to youth events. We have a gym, a relatively large sanctuary, a bunch of different little classrooms, some offices, and two floors which both open up to a stair well. On Wednesday nights, the youth group usually takes up the lower floor. Nothing is usually on the top floor for relatively good reasons which were overlooked tonight (aka...it's echo-y up top and you can totally hear everything that is happening upstairs when you are downstairs).
Tonight was the first acoustic night ever since the worship band got Joey (our new drummer, of which I am super duper excited about having!!) We were rather excited about having a djembe play for the first time with two acoustic guitars and a bass (because it sounds relaxing). Plus we were going to play Christmas music.
Upstairs, there just happened to be a banquet in process. Actually the banquet was over, the kids were playing charades. So all throughout "O Holy Night", we heard random words and cheerings yelled out. It was somewhat humorous, but mostly distracting. There is a time to be funny and a time to be serious (kind of like Ecclesiastes says...but anyways). I had to take a deep breath afterwords because I was not very happy about the people upstairs who obviously didn't notice the people downstairs or the noise that seemed to grow louder and louder from their exciting charades. (Ironic, isn't it? Noisy charades?)
Now that I look back at it. I was being super selfish. I was thinking only about myself and my youthgroup whose worship was being interrupted. What I could have done, was play with hope. Hope that our worship would be heard upstairs and that some of those people upstairs would be lead to think about God in such a noisy, commercial, "holiday" time as Christmas in America. Maybe they could possibly be thinking about God in a world filled with lies about how this "Holiday Season" is filled with Santa Claus and Salvation Army bell ringers and Christmas trees and presents and finals in school and "Holiday" break and on and on. Now that I think about, I really do hope that God made an impact on one of those persons' lives through our youth group's worship. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Perhaps, next time, instead of complaining and being selfish about worship team, I could play as if I were playing for God.

"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves"

-Philippians 2:3

"Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."

-Colossians 3:17

(the pic is from google)