True Worshipers
Posted By Joe on February 3, 2010
What is true worship?
Ever ask yourself that? Have you ever wondered what it means to worship God?
HT: Agape Baptist Church
Luckily for us, Jesus Himself tells us in the book of John. He is having a conversation with a woman at a well. Jesus and this woman have an interesting dialog that initially finds the woman being quite terse with Jesus. That is, until she starts discovering that He is no mere Jewish man.
Then, Jesus says something interesting to her.
"Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews." --John 4:21-22.
Jesus is telling her that the Savior of all mankind would be a Jew, and the people of Israel would be the first messengers of the good news of the gospel.
He then continues with a pivotal statement.
"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." --John 4:23-24.
Jesus repeats Himself in these verses.
Why?
Considering who He is--the second person of the Triune God--I think it's rather telling that if He repeats Himself, He is telling us that what He is saying is important. If we are to worship God, we must worship in spirit and truth.
Worship without spirit is dead, routine, familiar, traditional, legalistic, and disrespectful.
Worship without truth is in vain, self-serving, prideful, insulting to God, and without intimacy.
Both are without knowledge, just as Jesus said to the woman: "you worship what you do not know." May we ask of God to teach us how to worship Him in spirit and truth! May we all become His true worshipers.
And May He Increase!
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