Jesus tells us in John 4:24 that we must “worship in spirit and in truth.” Worshiping “in truth” means that we come informed by the objective revelation of God’s Word about the great God we serve and the precepts He has spoken. In this sense our worship is governed by what we know and believe of God. The better informed we are, the better we can worship. If we know and have taken to heart passages like Genesis 1, Psalm 139, Psalm 23, the Book of Job, John 7, John 17, Romans 1 — 3, Revelation 19 — to name a few, the better equipped we will be to worship “in truth.”
This knowledge of God through his Word ought to heighten our expectations and instil healthy fear and reverence. Men, we need to fill ourselves with God’s truth so our worship will be electrified with proper reality! Besides worshiping in stupendous truth, we worship “in spirit.” Notice the small “s,” referring to our human spirits, the inner person. TRUE WORSHIP FLOWS FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Worship is not an external activity, but is of necessity first internal. Jesus warned hypocrites with the words of Isaiah: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain’” (Mark 7:6, 7, quoting Isaiah 29:13).
Thus true worship must spring from within a man’s spirit, from the spontaneous affections of the heart — as it did so regularly from the heart of David. Psalm 130, a Psalm of Ascents, expresses the anticipation of one worshiping in spirit: “ I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning (Psalm 130:5, 6).
HALELUJAH. PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS ALWAYS ON TIME AND EVER FAITHFUL
References:
The Living Bible
Discipline of a Godly Man( Book by Kent Hughes)
Evangelist Eric Musa:
(My message continuously: If you are not saved: Believe, accept, receive and confess Christ Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and be filled with the Holy Spirit, as it is written; “NOW is the acceptable time, TODAY is the day of SALVATION.- 2 Cor 6:2”. For prayers, devotion, and to support the ministry contact Evangelist on +254722157300 ( Email: EMEA.ericmusa@gmail.com). Remember, God Loves you and I unconditionally, perfectly and always: SHALOM
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