The word for today is - According!

Good morning,

The word for today is - According!

Let's read John 4:23-24, 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. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.  We must worship God in truth!  Since His word is true, we must worship Him according to His word. Some people, seem to have forgotten that our worship service is to bring glory and honor to God, and not to entertain ourselves.  In this age and time everything is designed to appeal to our emotions and to entertain us.This is very disrespectful and demeaning toward God to reduce our worship of God to the entertaining of  ourselves.  Worship is not a spectator event.  We dare not become spectators, because in worship it is God who is the spectator. We are as Hebrews 13:15,"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God,continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name."  In worship we must be the participants, not the observers. In Galatians 1:10 the question is asked, "For do I now persuade (seek to please) men, or God? or do I seek  to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."  Worship is God-centered not man-centered.  When our worship is to please God instead of ourselves, then and only then will our worship be much more meaningful and spiritually uplifting to us and acceptable to God. Jesus says in Matthew 10:37, "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me:  and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." Many people never stop to ask, is it scriptural and is this what God said?  They believe that just any kind of worship they give will be acceptable to God. The main reason for all the division that we see in the world today is that man will not accept God’s word as final authority.  Man is going to do it his own way always.  The Bible contains our only instructions on how to please God so we can make it in. God has always told man how He is to be worshipped. He tells us the only way, by Spirit ! God is the only one who has the right (authority) to tell man how to worshipped Him.  He will only accept that which is in harmony with His prescribed will.  God instructs us how, by His word.  In Ephesians 5:17,"Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." The New Testament has given to us all things we need to know that pertain to life and godliness so we can worship Him in Spirit and truth. How do we worship Him? according to His word. Thank you God for your word. Amen !