Worship in truth

True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. John 4:23

There should never be any unreality in our worship. God never requires us to put on airs and graces, to hide behind a veneer of presentability or to pretend to be someone we are not. Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well just as she was. He saw all the detail in her life and accepted her just as she came. He does the same for us. Always.

There is a great folly in trying to hide anything from God. He knows us inside and out. He perceives our thoughts from afar. He even knows them before we think them! And yet, like Adam we can feel the need to stitch together our own equivalent of fig leaves to hide the details in our life we are embarrassed by.

Worship does not require that we disconnect from the genuine issues and problems in our life. But rather that we place them at the feet of Jesus and choose to take up the garment of praise.

To try to change ourselves before we come to worship is like trying to put the cart before the horse.

We come as we are but we do not leave as we were!

[Originally posted on Facebook 17/01/18]