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WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15
Exodus 28:36-38

John 4:21-24

 

“Be ye holy, for I am holy.”

 

WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH
 
Today let us begin with a solemn prayer: Father, open Thou mine eyes to see the “iniquity of the holy things.” It is humbling and profitable for us to take a close look at this strange and sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, its dead formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and disrespect of God - these make a whole catalogue of the “iniquity of the holy things”!
 
But that is not all. Consider further our work for the Lord, its pretense, selfishness, carelessness, sloppiness, slackness, unbelief - what a mass of defilement it adds to our first account. Our private devotions, their half-heartedness, coldness, neglect, sleepiness, and vanity - these mount up into a nauseating heap of revolting refuse. For some church-goers, perhaps some congregations, perhaps myself (!), they add up to the total experience of “holy things.”
 
With some Christians, the heart of devotion very much resembles the garden of the sluggard. Look! It is a sorry sight to see noxious weeds creeping and overspreading my garden. (Yes, care not to look into your neighbour’s. Like charity, let’s begin at home.) With holy motives and God-given desires, let us, with Holy Spirit help, come before the Lord and plead for mercy. Every noxious weed of iniquity must go as we confess them to the Lord.
 
We are comforted with the fact that when the High Priest bore the iniquity of the holy things, he wore upon his brow the words, “HOLINESS TO THE LORD.” Even so, while our Lord Jesus bears our sins, He presents before His Father’s face, not our unholiness, but His HOLINESS. O, for grace to view our great High Priest with the eye of faith!
 
THOUGHT: God is a Spirit. He cannot be deceived or mocked by man.
PRAYER: Father, forgive my unholy life. Make me to worship Thee and to live for Thee in a way that truly pleases and glorify Thee.

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