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TRUE WORSHIP
TUESDAY, APRIL 29
John 4:23-42
Revelation 4:8-11
“…I have meat to eat
that ye know not of.”
TRUE WORSHIP
The Samaritans were waiting for their Messiah to come, who would teach them what is true worship. Jesus did just that when He told the Samaritan woman, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” God demands worship that is “in spirit and in truth.” Biblically acceptable worship requires:
1. the Spirit: True worshippers must be spiritually reborn and indwelt by the Holy Spirit — “be born of water and of the Spirit” (John 3:5); and
2. the Truth: True worshippers must worship God in accordance with His way as taught in His Truth — His Word is Truth (John 17:17).
Almost convinced that Jesus is the promised Messiah, the Samaritan woman became evangelistic. She went straight to the city centre and told the people, “Come, see …is not this the Christ?” What was the result? “And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him.” The Samaritans pleaded with Jesus to remain with them, and He stayed there for a couple of days. During that time, many more believed “because of his own word.” Surely, “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom 10:17). It was not the Samaritan woman alone who believed in Christ, but the rest of the people too, for they told her, “Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”
Jesus knew very well that He had to obey His Father’s will if His redemptive mission was to be successful. This is revealed in His words, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” Jesus went about accomplishing His Father’s commission to Him with absolute single-mindedness and great zeal. He did not allow hunger and thirst to distract Him from the urgent task of reaping precious souls for God’s kingdom in the already ripe harvest fields; another example of His perfect obedience.
THOUGHT: “Worship is the mother of all virtues.”
PRAYER: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.”