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The meaning of worship from the oxford definition is the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. Worship is one of the essentials of Christianity, that is to praise and glorify God. Worship today to the eyes of many people, is singing worship songs from hillsong or bethel, jumping up and down and believing that we feel the Holy spirit during worship. But I ask you today is this truly worship?
The answer is no. Modern day worship is not the true worship of the Bible or what God commands it to be. The thing is we believe that singing songs is worship, but it is not the overall meaning of worship. The worship we see in today is nothing more but a performance. During worship you see dim lights, smoke machines, movement of the flow of the worship (fast to slow songs) and we believe that being worship. We believe that it gives us an experience of feeling the presence of the Holy spirit. But it does not. What you see on Sunday or youth worship is nothing more but being crafted for an emotional experience.
You confuse emotion for the presence of the Holy spirit. This is certainly manipulation that make us to believe that we are worshipping God, but we are not. Jesus Christ laid out to us what is true worship, which is to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Jesus never said worship God by emotion or by simply music. The Holy spirit reveals through the Apostle Paul that real worship is what Romans 12:1 says, “your body as a living sacrifice.” The Apostle Paul does not mean a physical sacrifice like the Jews did before Christ, what he means is about living a Holy and a Godly life by following the Holy Spirit.
In Acts 16:25-26 it says “But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.” Paul and Silas were truly worshipping God, not by singing hymns, but because they honored God with their lifestyle which is how God commands us to live in. In 1 Peter 1:16 “because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” How many of you live the lifestyle that Jesus Christ commands us? How is it possible that we go and worship him one day and except him to bless us for the rest of the week in which we do not praise him with the lifestyle we live be? God is Holy, and he excepts us to be Holy as well, to live the Godly lifestyle as Jesus Christ did.
This is what Jesus meant to worship God in truth. Are we being tue with God with the way we are living or are we deceiving ourselves into believing we are, but in reality not. 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” We have no truth if we believe that we are right with God, but in reality we are not. To truly glorify God, one must live as Jesus Christ, be an imitator to the life as Jesus, meaning the Godly lifestyle as he did (Ephesians 5:1-2).
If you truly want to praise God, stop believe that music is the only thing that is worship. Music is just an essential to worship, but it is not completely worship. Starting living as Jesus Christ did, and do not believe the worship of the modern day church. It is nothing more because just emotional manipulation, and you cannot believe that you are right with God by just singing. Starting worshiping God as the Apostles did with their Godly lifestyle. Repent today of your sins, and starting living as Jesus. God bless you today.