Friday, November 3, 2023

Listen to the Word

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. (John 4:23)

To worship God in spirit and in truth is to worship him with your life. If you worship him “in spirit,” you are worshipping him with who you are in your deepest part. If you worship him “in truth,” then you are worshipping with integrity – your worship lines up with reality.

Your worship should match up with who you are. What you say in the holy place should fit how you live in the marketplace. Real worship is not a Sunday morning thing, but a 24/7 thing. Real worship is not just what you do at church, but what you do at the dinner table, at the gym, when you are stuck in traffic. What goes on in the sanctuary on Sunday is more commotion than devotion if you don’t intend to live it out. An hour of singing about how great God is won’t cover up for living the other 167 hours of the week as if he didn’t exist.

Live a life of worship. Worship in spirit and in truth.

Live the Word

Seek to fill this day with several mini-moments of worship. As often as possible, take a few seconds to thank God for something, or confess something to him, or offer yourself to him.