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Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth: A Christian’s Guide
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How do we as Christians worship God properly and truly? Let’s take some advice from Jesus. John chapter four, verse 24. "God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
And we have to meditate on this verse to get some kind of understanding of what this means to us. God is spirit. He’s not physical. We can’t actually see him physically with our eyes unless he chooses to reveal himself to us in that way.
So we therefore have to move in faith in order to worship him as someone we can’t see or perceive directly with our senses. We are moving in the realm of faith. But we’re not doing this as something that people might call "blind faith", that we have no idea who God is or what he’s about. No, we have lots of revelation by God of himself in the pages of the Bible, in the creation that we see around us, in the witness, in our spirits.
So we rely on all of these things to step out in faith and to worship him. And in worshipping him, we are just saying God, we are giving you your due. We are recognising who you are. You are the spiritual being who gave life to us and to this entire universe. And this gives us the perspective that we need in order to worship him in truth, recognising his supremacy over us and his love for us.
And so my friends, if we meditate on this verse and what it means for us today, this helps us enter into the right frame of mind, the right state of heart to be able to worship God the way he deserves and wants to be worshipped. Maybe next time you’re about to enter a worship service with other believers, reflect on this verse first, which may be, oh, so familiar to you and decide in your heart that you will today worship him in spirit and truth.
