Friday, 16 November 2012

Genuine Worship

To offer the burnt offering and the other offerings is to worship God. God wants us to worship Him with Christ as the reality of the offerings. God does not want a people who worship Him by bowing down,  kneeling, or even merely by singing and praising. 
Genuine worship, the worship which satisfies God’s heart, is a matter of our coming to worship God by offering to Him the Christ whom we have experienced and offering Him according to our experiences, reviewing the experiences we have had in our daily life. This is the worship the Father is seeking, the worship He desires. The Father wants us to worship Him by offering His Son to Him according to a procedure in which we review our experiences. 
Life-Study of Leviticus, Message 9

This pursuit opened a new vista to my understanding of worship. It is not an outward piety or rituals performed, but a "living."  The very living of a God-man life is a true worship to the Father. Void of this living, its all religious superstition. Many, not excepting me, and have fallen prey to the devil's wiles of worship. Worst is, many does this ritual thinking it is a worship to God! Religion indeed has blind folded many seekers of God, just due to ignorance of the truth or misinterpretation of the truth. Such is the case of today's religious genre. There is an urgent need for the knowledge and understanding of the truth with the experience of the very truth understood rightly.

Rightly, the Lord said in John 8:32 : "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." Ignorance of the truth leads many to religious sins and superstitious deeds. So is the urgent need for every seeking believers to know the truth, experience the truth and live the truth.

What a relief to know this! Our living is a genuine worship of God; a living of Christ daily by taking Him as our life and our living.

Lord gain my living everyday, all the days of my life, to live You and You only as Paul did and said, "For to me is to live Christ." Phil.1:21


"Proper worship involves the burnt offering and the meal
offering. To offer the burnt offering for God’s satisfaction
and to offer the meal offering for our satisfaction and for
sharing our satisfaction with God—this is real worship.
Proper worship is a matter of satisfying God with Christ as
the burnt offering, and of being satisfied with Christ as the
meal offering and sharing this satisfaction with God. In real
worship Christ as the burnt offering ascends to God, and
Christ as the meal offering enters our being. In such worship
we satisfy God with Christ, and we share with Him our
enjoyment of Christ."
Life-Study of Leviticus, Message 11

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