Saturday, October 06, 2007

God seeks true worshippers who worship in spirit and in truth.

how many of us worship in truth? i think many of us do!

most of us acknowledge God as great, awesome, mighty, love, and so on. we acknowledge that he saved us and that we owe him big. big enough to never be repaid. we sincerely believe that God can take us and use us in ways untold. we truly want God to take take take it all. we celebrate his coming to earth and his victory over death.

we know that coporate worship is about giving God his due praise and hence we sing his praises because we really want to give him praise.

we worship in TRUTH. agree?

but in spirit. thats where we often have trouble. or at least, i do.

to worship in spirit, i believe is more than a mental engagement.

i often worship God from my head. im not sure how to explain this.

its kinda like a couple just talking or something. and then HE says i love you. for no reason at all. its just that its true! he loves her. and he wants her to know that he still does and that he iswilling to express it.

but when she does something for him, like say make him a gift, or help remove a splinter, or comfort him when he is down, or give him a massage or something, then he says i love you. thats like different isnt it?

its not that he is giving conditional love, its just that at that point, she was ministering to his needs or bringing him joy, and that causes him to love her even more, or at least comfirms in his heart that yes, i truly love this girl. and then he says it. i love you.

i think its the same with God. i love him. i know i do. but its only sometimes that i feel my love for him is exploding out of my being.

thats when i worship (refering to singing of songs and stuff) in spirit and in truth.

conclusion. i need weekly encounters with his goodness. or strong reminders about all he HAS done for me. thats when it becomes more than a mental engagement. it becomes an emotional engagement. and then, my spirit connects and becomes in sync with the holy spirit in me. and thats when i feel whole again. restored and recharged. God never meant for worship to be a drag or a duty. he created music and dance and hype so that we would be restored each week, or everytime we worship.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. - Yeshua (john 4:23)

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