THE
TRUE WORSHIPPERS
Memorise:
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. John 4:24
Read:
John 4:21-24, Bible in one year: 1st Kings 7:1-8:11, Luke 2:22-40
It is not all acts of worship that God
accepts, because not all worshippers are true worshippers. The truth was
revealed by Jesus in His conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well.
He also revealed some other great truths about worship that we should pay close
attention to if we want our worship to be acceptable to God. The first of these
is that any “God” that is limited or restricted to particular place is false
and not worthy of worship. Worship directed towards such contraptions of men is
counterfeit worship. The worship of the true God does not involve going to a
junction where three roads meet to put food items for God to come and eat. Paul
came across worshippers of such gods at Mars’ Hill Athens (Acts 17:22-31). The true God is
described thus by the Psalmist in Psalm 8:1:
“O
Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy
glory above the heavens.”
Another truth about worship which Jesus
revealed is that any god that does not have a fatherly relationship with his
worshippers is not worthy of our worship. Anyone worshipping such gods is not a
true worshipper. This is why Jesus came to make us children of His Father.
Also, when He was teaching His disciples how to pray, He described the true God
as “Father” (Luke 11:2). Furthermore, Jesus revealed that our worship of God is
not true worship if we do not know the God we are worshipping. This is the
reason why Paul tried to introduce the Athenians to the God they were
ignorantly worshipping (Acts 17:23). He tried to teach them that they were wrong
to think that the Godhead could be represented by gold, silver or stone graven
by art and man’s devices (Acts 17:29). No worshipper should ignorantly think
that a Holy God will accept worship from a life laden with the sin of
falsehood, pretence and all manner of immorality and wickedness.
True worship involves worshipping the
true God in spirit and in truth, we must worship God in spirit because God is a
Spirit, and only through the spirit can we relate meaningfully with His Spirit.
To worship God in Sprit means to do what He bids you to do with a spiritual
mind of faith. These are things the Holy Spirit of God would ask us to do what
viewed with a carnal mind, are difficult to understand. For example, when God
asked Noah to build a big ship on dry ground, to men of his generation, this
was not a sensible thing to do. That a person should stick to one spouse “for
better, for worse” may not sound reasonable, but that is what the word of God
says. A true worshipper of God will not tell lies even if there is no risk of
being found out. To a true worshipper, being truthful is not about man but
about God who is all-knowing.
Prayer
Point
Father,
grant me grace to live a life of acceptable worship through Your Spirit in
Jesus’ Name.
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