Like most preachers, I
have used this verse a lot. I believe
that it is especially relevant in the Church today. We do church, but we don't do it all that
well, at least not by God's standards.
We vary on some of our understandings of truth, but for the most part,
we do pretty well about preaching and teaching the Word of God. It's the living part that we struggle with
the most. Most of us probably have a
fairly good workable knowledge of the truth.
It's just that we don't do well with making it work for us the other
days of the week when we aren’t in church.
Another problem we run
into is that we usually go through the motions of worship instead of actually
being in the spirit of worship. Many
things go through our minds when we are in worship services and most of them
are not related to our relationship with God.
So often, we leave our spirit out of the church. We go through the motions, but we are not
connecting with the Lord like we could and should be.
Is it really worship
that we are doing? Not according to what
Jesus is saying in our text today. In
order for true worship to happen we need to be engaged with the Lord both in
His Word and in our spirit. We need to
quiet our hearts before the Lord, wait before Him, and expect Him to speak to
us. We need to focus on our souls and
not all the other stuff that may fill up our days or our surroundings. We need to come before Him knowing we need a
word from Him and stay engaged until we get it.
Jesus said that we
MUST worship Him in spirit and truth.
Let us strive to do a better job of bringing our spirit with us when we
come before Him in worship, whether it's in public or private worship.
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