Worship stopped becoming about people around me.
It became personal. Honest. Free.
For many years, I struggled with one simple thing during worship:
raising my hands before God.
Since childhood, I always had questions in my heart.
Why do people raise their hands while worshipping?
What does it truly mean?
Deep inside, I always had a desire to worship freely,
but fear stopped me.
I worried about what people would think.
Sometimes I raised my hands.
Sometimes I did not.
But inside my heart,
there was always a strong desire to worship God
without shame.
One Sunday during church service,
I heard a message that deeply struck my heart:
“If we are ashamed to worship God,
why do we expect boldness before Him?”
That sentence stayed with me.
I realized something:
God alone deserves worship.
Why should I fear people while standing before Him?
Even after hearing that message,
another fear remained:
“What will people think about me?
Will they think I am trying to look spiritual?
Will they think I am showing off?”
That fear silently stopped me many times.
Not because I did not love God,
but because I cared too much about people around me.
Slowly I understood something important:
true worship is not performance before people.
It is surrender before God.
One Sunday at CrossPointe Church in Hyderabad,
I worshipped freely without fear.
Later, the church unexpectedly shared this photo.
That moment became very personal to me.
Not because of the picture itself,
but because I realized something had changed inside me.
For the first time,
I was no longer afraid.
Worship stopped becoming about people around me.
It became personal.
Honest.
Free.
Praise the Lord