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Will You Worship Me Now?

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Will You Worship Me Now?

This is the first song that I wrote that ended up on this project.  Actually I co-wrote it with Henry Mosley, a great friend who always believed in my writing ability, and helped to draw it out. God hooked me up when he blessed me with Henry’s friendship and talent.  It was September 1997.  I had recently celebrated a birthday, and on the following day, I got into a car accident that totaled my older brother’s brand-new Volkswagen GTI (!!!!!!!)  I believe it may have been that very week, or the week after that my pastor, Henry M. Wright, preached a sermon entitled, “Behold the Lamb”.  The part of the sermon that really caught my attention was when He said, “The Jews couldn’t fathom a King hanging on a cross...He didn’t seem to be God-like in such a weak form...behold the Lamb!  When we have found a faith in God, especially during the moments when He seems, in our opinion, unlike God, we have found a faith that will lead us to Paradise...”  A couple of weeks later, Pastor Wright’s son, Michael, was killed in a tragic car accident.  As I sat there at the piano during the funeral, thinking about the previous weeks’ prophetic and tragic events, the chorus of this song came to mind.

Will You Worship Me Now?
Standing here, between the earth and sky,
On a cross willing to die—for you!
Will You Worship Me Now?
I’m before you without my crown. 
I’m your Savior, My head’s hung down;
And the question I place on your heart:
‘Will You Worship Me Now?’

Interestingly enough, Henry and I were unable to finish the song that year.  We put our best work in, and got as far as verse 1 and the chorus.  It wasn’t until during the final week of June of 1998 that I was at home watching television, and suddenly I felt inspired to write.  I sat down at the table and wrote out the last verse and chorus.  The following day, Henry and I got together, wrote the bridge an put everything together.  I sang the song through for the first time, and it was a perfect fit!  This was Tuesday, June 30, 1998.  Fourth of July fell on Saturday of that week.  My cousin Hussam, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, decided to spend that Saturday night in Washington, DC with friends, enjoying the festivities and fireworks.  It’s quite possible that they didn’t get much sleep that night.  The following morning, Hussam decided to return home in a different car, a generous gesture that would save his original driver a longer trip home.  What Hussam was unaware of  was that this new driver was extremely exhausted; so exhausted that he fell asleep at the wheel while driving up I-95, causing an accident that would take Hussam’s life.  When I received the news, I went straight home and played the cassette tape of me singing “Will You Worship Me Now?”...I understood in that moment why God didn’t allow Henry and me to finish the song the previous year—He wanted us to finish the song just in time for when I’d need to hear it most. 

This was a tough lesson to learn, but God has a way of using our suffering to bring about comfort and hope.  God’s asking you the same question: Will you worship Him when, despite all the ‘good’ that you do, bad things still happen? 

My friend, I hope that you will find the courage to respond, ‘yes’.

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