Deuteronomy 12:18b . . . you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.
(The Lord has just given His people detailed instructions about when, where, and how they are to serve Him, express their obedience,
and carefully obey His commands.
Now, He reminds them that the manner, the attitude, they bring to the obedience in which they walk before Him matters.
He calls them and us to adopt a cheerful and positive attitude that reflects joy and gladness.
When He calls us into obedience, He does not ask for blind servitude.
Instead, He invites us into the fullness of the joy of the Lord,
into the joy of serving Him through whatever it is to which we turn our hands.
Our service to Him, our worship, is not separated into a day of the week or certain religious behaviors.
When we do whatever it is we do as unto the Lord,
when we consciously commit the work of our hands to the Lord,
we commit an act of worship to Him. As we rejoice in Him, such true worship in not confined or limited, but it is a giving of ourselves as living sacrifices, offering ourselves back to our Creator in a joyful act of submission, rejoicing in the invitation He has given us to come near to Him and to abide in His presence.)
