Those who
worship God must worship in spirit and truth
Saturday,
August 17, 2013
Scriptures: John 4: 21 – 24; Psalm
150
In John 4, we read of the
story of the Samaritan woman's encounter with Jesus. Concerning
worship, Jesus tells her that true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth. He also says that the Father is seeking such
(true worshipers) to worship Him.
So, what is true worship?
Can we only truly worship with a certain style of music? Psalm 150
names several instruments that we can use to worship and praise our
Lord with. But the last verse in that Psalm says “Let everything
that has breath praise the Lord.” That sounds like an open
invitation from God to use whatever we want to use to praise and give
Him glory with...guitars, drums, etc.
Probably like most
christians, I have certain styles of music that I tend to prefer over
others. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to attend a gospel concert
with a gospel quartet singing hymns and other songs. The style of
music is not my favorite style. But as I listened, I began to
worship the Lord.
I watched as others (many
in their senior years) were worshiping and getting ministered to by
the Lord. Just like christian rock bands that I have listened to
and learned to respect, the words of the songs that the gospel
quartet were singing sounded like they came “word for word” from
the bible. I sensed the same Spirit at this concert that I do when
singing the more contemporary worship songs at church or at home.
God wants us to focus off
of ourselves and on Him in true worship. It's not that He (God)
needs to be worshiped. We have a need to worship something or
someone. We have a need to worship God. Because of that need, we
will end up putting ourselves into something or someone. But there
is truly only one place (actually person) who is worthy of our praise
and worship. Only One is truly worth pouring ourselves out for.
That is God in the person of Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit.
In Christ our Lord,
Don
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