These people honor me only with their words, for their hearts are so very distant from me. They pretend to worship me, but their worship is nothing more than the empty traditions of men..
Matthew 15:8-9 TPT
Can’t stop thinking of these words. How do my worship looks like? I get to church services, and … worship…
Empty tradition of men?
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id you ever think that worship can become the empty tradition of men? How do you honor our God? It’s a personal question, and you can answer to yourself, I am checking my own heart. Just recently I came across a quote: “Worship is not a twenty minutes period during church service; It’s a LIFESTYLE”.
Let’s just put it this way…
We can honor God with our words, singing “Hallelujah” on Sunday, but our hearts can be distant from God. Right away in my mind I got the Beautiful Love song, and in our lives it’s like – I am singing to someone “I love you”, but I really do not, it’s just a cool song.
I think this should be stopped. Just think about your own life. Would you want someone you deeply love to sing a song to you about his or her love to you, but in reality, not even trying to get closer to you or to show you his or her love and affection? It would hurt me.
The image appeared before me:
Every single day, the person goes and does whatever the soul desires, feeding the personal ego, not even paying attention to the One who created him, who love him unconditionally, who wants to spend some quality time, who is there for him to help, to protect, to cover, but in return getting hurt and abused again and again, but on Sunday….
“I Love you, Lord”… IT HURTS!
I think a lot of you know exactly how it feels. How similar our earthly relationship can be to our relationship with our Master.
Maybe some of you think, God does not hear me, What can He give me…
Let me tell you: if you treat Him as a subject for ex. as a “chair”, how can you expect “chair” to talk?
If you think of Him as someone distant and you even do not know if He will get back to you with answer, how can you get the answer?
He wants to share something with you
Our God is a REAL PERSON! Open your heart, get closer to Him, there is so much He wants to share with you. He has so much love to pour out to you. But He will not unless you will allow Him and will make yourself AVAILABLE for Him.
“The people honor me with their words…. Pretend to worship Me…”
It hurts……
I do not know whom I am addressing this to, but I am begging you, please stop hurting Him, I do not want to see another nail in His holy body…
Something similar is happening in many marriages. Do you know why? Because the same enemy is trying to separate us from our loved ones. But at the same time, you can see and understand the reflection of the Love of God and how much He wants you in His life!
I am asking God today, help us to stop, look around and reassess our relationships. Is my heart is distant, is my worship became a tradition? Maybe it became like that over time, but now I ask you, turn your heart to Your Master, Your Lord, Your Savior, He loves you and is waiting for you.
I call Him, Majesty! Because He is Majesty in my life, My Majesty, My Lord!
He can be Your Majesty, when you will love Him with ALL your heart, with ALL your mind, and with ALL your soul.
Be blessed and let your life, your heart will be closer to your Master, and be in TRUE worship.
Love you all!
