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Our Worship Makes the Difference
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. ~ John 4:24
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Everyone worships. Here is what you might see on a line graph, one end of which represents the worlds' most dangerous and most harmful, the other end of which represents the world's most benign and most beneficial.
At the former extremity, you would have those who worship self: it may manifest in anything from hardened criminals to seemingly upstanding members of the community. However, their worship of self leaves in its wake all kinds of evil, everything from serial killing to marital unfaithfulness to embezzlement to abuse to compulsive lying to meanness.
In the interim section of the line, you have those who worship practicality or causes, everything from church goers to agnostics to the politically correct to the hard-working blue collars to the environmentalists--not the worst, but not the godliest. This manifests in everything from the passionate to the lethargic, from the publicity seeker to the anonymous. However, in the grand scheme of eternity, they have little-to-no impact.
On the latter extremity, you have those who, with all purposefulness, attempt to fulfill the requirement described in our text: they worship God through Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth. It is important that it be in spirit, for that supersedes melodramatic religion or socio-military-religious fanatics. Their worship manifests itself, in varying degrees, much of which is depicted in Matthew 5-7. They are more beneficial to the world than they or others know, being just as Jesus said: the "salt" of the earth and the "light" of the world.
One can only "see" this, once the veil has been torn from his mind's and heart's eyes (2 Corinthians 4:3-4, John 3:3, etc.).
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Everyone worships. Here is what you might see on a line graph, one end of which represents the worlds' most dangerous and most harmful, the other end of which represents the world's most benign and most beneficial.
At the former extremity, you would have those who worship self: it may manifest in anything from hardened criminals to seemingly upstanding members of the community. However, their worship of self leaves in its wake all kinds of evil, everything from serial killing to marital unfaithfulness to embezzlement to abuse to compulsive lying to meanness.
In the interim section of the line, you have those who worship practicality or causes, everything from church goers to agnostics to the politically correct to the hard-working blue collars to the environmentalists--not the worst, but not the godliest. This manifests in everything from the passionate to the lethargic, from the publicity seeker to the anonymous. However, in the grand scheme of eternity, they have little-to-no impact.
On the latter extremity, you have those who, with all purposefulness, attempt to fulfill the requirement described in our text: they worship God through Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth. It is important that it be in spirit, for that supersedes melodramatic religion or socio-military-religious fanatics. Their worship manifests itself, in varying degrees, much of which is depicted in Matthew 5-7. They are more beneficial to the world than they or others know, being just as Jesus said: the "salt" of the earth and the "light" of the world.
One can only "see" this, once the veil has been torn from his mind's and heart's eyes (2 Corinthians 4:3-4, John 3:3, etc.).
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