Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:21-24
The one thing we must never do in our inner life is make Jesus less than what He is and less than what He can do. If we do diminish Him in our spirit, mind, emotions and will, we will never worship in spirit and in truth. We must learn to continuously worship in spirit by attributing all worth to Jesus and worship in truth by continuously seeing Jesus for who He is as truth.
It is only when we see Jesus as ALL and we give Him worship as ALL that we become the kind of people God seeks. Every disciple should want to be easily found by God!
We would all do well to begin each day affirming that the presence of the Spirit of Christ within us is where ALL truth is and where ALL inspiration to love begins. If we would simply rest each day in ALL the worth He is and ALL the truth He is, we would begin our day in spirit and in truth. Only then are we where the God who seeks true worshippers can easily find us.
In this world all we see is not what it appears to be. The world hides lies behind many masks and we are all easily fooled into attributing truth to lies. To believe in all we see around us is to certainly begin our day in less instead of all. To give worth (worship) to all we see around us is to certainly begin our day in the wrong spirit. We would do well to remember that all the world rests in the wicked one but all disciples can rest in Jesus.
In every disciple Jesus is ALL he appears to be now and forever. He wears no masks, tells no lies and inspires only love. God would have each of us worship Him by attributing to Him ALL and by seeing Jesus as ALL truth from the moment we awaken each day.
Worship Him now in spirit and in truth. God will always find this worship because He seeks it.
Bud McCord
Abide International
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