True Worship

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. - John 4:23

    “Worship” means to adore, reverence, love, respect, devote one’s self to, submit to, to esteem and acknowledge a person or thing above all else.

    Worship of any one or any thing other than the true and living God is idolatry. It is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve (Lk 4:8).

    Man is a worshipper and as a result of his fallen nature, is an idolater. We see this in the Scriptures from the fall of Adam even to our own selves. Man’s false god is the last thing to go in coming to Christ, and is the unbeliever’s point of rebellion.

    True worshippers worship the true and living God. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life (1 Jn 5:20).

    True worship has one singular object, that is God in Christ. There is no God else beside Me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me (Is 45:21).

    In order for there to be true worship, there must be a new heart, a new Spirit and a new mind, and these God must give. A new heartalso will I give you, and a new spiritwill I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh (Ez 36:26).

    The truth is essential to true worship as well; the truth as it is in God’s Word, the truth as it is in Christ. True worship requires the truth concerning who God is, who Christ is and what he accomplished, and where he is now. True worship requires the truth concerning salvation for his people in Christ alone and all that pertains thereunto. The Lord Jesus Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (Jn 14:6).

    True worship is not in form, ritual or ceremony. It is from the hearts of those to whom God has revealed himself. True worship is born of God and is toward God. For sinners to worship the true and living God, we must come with the accepted sacrifice, and that sacrifice is the Lamb of God, Christ our Lord.