12.24 True Worship in the New Covenant
When we experience God’s blessings in thanksgiving, His character in praise, and His Person in worship, our lives will be transformed. Our love for Him will grow. We begin to yield more of our lives as a living sacrifice to Him. Our desire to honor and obey Him increases. Like David, we desire to be a man after God’s heart, to do His perfect will and to glorify His name.
(Rom 12:1-2)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and PERFECT WILL of God.
In the Gospels, the life of Jesus was the perfect example of worship. He came to fulfill His Father’s will and was obedient unto death. Even as a child, Jesus was mindful of His calling. He said to His earthly parents in Luke 2:49, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” When Jesus started His ministry, He said to His disciples in John 4:34, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”
Today, there is a difference in worship in the New Covenant. True worship is not about our obedience to God. It is about the obedience of Christ & the fact that He lives in us. True worship is not just living for Christ. He came to be our Life. Gal 2:20 says, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me...” Christ has placed His Life in us so that He can manifest His Life through us.
True worship is not just doing His will. He came to be our will. He has placed His Spirit in us to put His passion in our hearts and His desires in our minds (Heb 8:10).
True worship is the expression of Christ living in and through us. It is to have His perfect will written in our hearts and revealed through our lives. You are called an epistle of Christ for others to read (2 Cor 3:3).
As we live by His Life and are driven by His passion, we will fulfill our divine purpose in life. Heb 12:1-2 says that God has marked out a race for you and me, a unique calling for your life and mine. We are to put aside everything that hinders us from running and completing our race.
(Rom 12:1-2)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and PERFECT WILL of God.
In the Gospels, the life of Jesus was the perfect example of worship. He came to fulfill His Father’s will and was obedient unto death. Even as a child, Jesus was mindful of His calling. He said to His earthly parents in Luke 2:49, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” When Jesus started His ministry, He said to His disciples in John 4:34, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”
Today, there is a difference in worship in the New Covenant. True worship is not about our obedience to God. It is about the obedience of Christ & the fact that He lives in us. True worship is not just living for Christ. He came to be our Life. Gal 2:20 says, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me...” Christ has placed His Life in us so that He can manifest His Life through us.
True worship is not just doing His will. He came to be our will. He has placed His Spirit in us to put His passion in our hearts and His desires in our minds (Heb 8:10).
True worship is the expression of Christ living in and through us. It is to have His perfect will written in our hearts and revealed through our lives. You are called an epistle of Christ for others to read (2 Cor 3:3).
As we live by His Life and are driven by His passion, we will fulfill our divine purpose in life. Heb 12:1-2 says that God has marked out a race for you and me, a unique calling for your life and mine. We are to put aside everything that hinders us from running and completing our race.
posted by Joshua Lye @ 12:32 AM
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