WORSHIP

WORSHIP

Sunday, February 21, 2016

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

  “Worship” is an interesting and unique word. It is a life-word, for our individual interpretation of it determines our life path. Every decision and action, with their results good and bad, flows out of our concept and practice of worship.

  Everyone worships.

  Worship involves attributing worth to person(s) or thing(s), doing so formally, as in church et al, or informally, as in a walk in the woods et al. This includes praise and glory expressed in church, sports events, and entertainment, or even a juice bar or some other such setting.

  Worship can involve diverse expression.

  Worship can be rigid or flexible, by rote or spontaneous, at times product of egocentric determination of needs, situations, star quality, personal emotions, and any capricious manners of man. (Ex.32:23-25)

  True worship is contrary to man’s natural self-centered erratic ways.

  With God worship is delightful and yet at the same time demanding; enjoyed in pleasant church or devotional setting, but most telling when elsewhere; driving along roads, assembling piles of widgets, organizing reams of paperwork, typing mounds of letters, answering scads of phone calls, telemarketing, diapers, mopping, scrubbing; at times plowing seemingly endless fields. (Lk.9:57-62)

  True worship is because of and unto God’s glory and power, love and mercy, this, in turn, Christ-like, flowing thru us to the refreshing or consternation of others. (Jn.7:37-38)

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