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True Worship
It is not possible for us to bring the Father true worship or to have fellowship with Him, if we are not filled with a profound impression of the preciousness of the person and sacrifice of Christ. Our heart must be filled with Him! Christ is the foundation of our blessed relationship with God. How can we enter the presence of God in spirit, without an enjoyment of the One who secured this place for us?
If the Lord is not constantly before our souls in all His preciousness, and if His loving-kindness fails to rejoice and refresh our hearts, then our worship will be a mere formality. We may be able to recount a whole list of truths fluently in our prayers, but that is of little value to God. He Himself finds His delight only in Christ and seeks souls who share His delight, so far as we are capable of doing so. That is worship! Singing hymns too, if we have lost sight of Christ, is at best pleasant to the ear, but not the expression of true worship. The Lord Jesus said, while sitting on the well at Sychar: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him” (John 4:23).
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