Text: John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
Today you will observe with dismay how some people counterfeit
the true worship of God in the name of religion. The reason for this phenomenon
is not farfetched. They worship in the flesh and not in the spirit. This is the
reason Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:5b that:
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
This also was the
message of Jesus Christ to the religiously minded people of His days, as well
as the message of the early apostles. They played down the paraphernalia of
religious practices that did not connote spiritualism. They worshipped in truth
and in spirit.
How can we put an end to carnal religiosity in our churches
today? The solution is simple: we must go back to the basics of Christian
teaching as outlined in Acts 2:37-38:
“Now when they heard this, they were
pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles,
Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.“
It is a pity that
people do not know or have forgotten that genuine repentance is the foundation
of the faith that saves. Covering up our past misdeeds without repentance is a
waste of time.
Culled from:
OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL THEME: TRUE WORSHIP by Pastor E. A. Adeboye, General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God
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