“God is spirit, and those who worship Him
John 4:24
must worship in spirit and truth.”
My Pondering
We are called to worship, know and respond to God in spirit and truth as we read here as Jesus speaks to the Samaritan women at the well. The well is old and deep, as Jesus connects to her with His presence and spiritual resources to living water.
Spirit relates and connects us to relationship and true religion illuminates God’s holiness, His divine law, commands and righteousness.
Religion is transactional which is necessary in how it organizes, provides structure, truth and sound doctrine.
Relationship is transformational which is also necessary because it takes us to higher spiritual level connecting our heart and emotions to God’s essence of love, joy and grace.
Let’s move from transactional to relational, which is transformational. From surface level to deep meaning, from young milk drinkers to mature meat eaters.
Let’s transcend from knowledge > understanding > revelation > transformation. Each stage is important and we can have nor sustain one without the other as spirit and truth rely on each other.
God expects us to worship Him not because He needs it. He has angels doing that. He expects because His glory deserves it and because it connects us with Him and transforms us in higher dimension which He created us for; relationship.
Let’s aim to be:
Dependent upon God.
Interdependent with family and friends.
Independent from sin, as the Spirit empowers.
Let’s worship God in all that we do; corporately in public and internally in private. Let’s worship with our whole being, our head, heats and hands at church, home, work and play.
Do you agree and will you join me throughout our whole salvation process from redemption, through sanctification and ultimately to glorification into eternity?