Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:30. (NIV)
The kind of worship that pleases God has four characteristics:
The kind of worship that pleases God has four characteristics:
4. God is pleased when our worship is practical.
The Bible says, “Offer your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God-that is your spiritual act of worship. Why does God want your body? Why doesn’t he say, “Offer your spirit”?
Because without your body you can’t do anything on this planet.
In eternity you will receive a new, improved, upgraded body, but while you’re here on earth, God says, “Give me what you’ve got.” He’s just being practical about worship.
You have heard people say, “I can’t make it to the meeting tonight, but I’ll be with you in spirit.” Do you know what that means? Nothing. It’s worthless! As long as you’re on earth, your spirit can only be where your body is. If your body isn’t there, neither are you.
In worship we are to “offer our bodies as living sacrifices.”
Now God is pleased with different sacrifices of worship: thanksgiving, praise, humility, repentance, offerings of money, prayer, serving others, and sharing with those in need.
Real worship costs. David knew this and said: “I will not offer to the LORD my God sacrifices that have cost me nothing.”
When you praise God even when you don’t feel like it, when you get out of bed to worship when you are tired, or when you help others when you are worn out, you are offering a sacrifice of worship to God. That pleases God. Amen.
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