True worship. What is it? Jesus defines and prescribes worship in many places in the Gospels, not the least of which is the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Listen to Christ in Matthew chapter five verse sixteen: "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven." I love how the New American Standard translation reads "in such a way". That is to say "your light", namely Christ's light, should reflect through our lives in a manner that reveals the value and worth of our God. In other words, true worship is an overflow of the light of our Lord Jesus Christ that shines so deep and bright in our hearts as believers.
How we are as His poor-in-spirit, meek, sin-mourning, pure, hungry for His righteousness, persecuted people is displayed as light in this dark world by the good works in which we walk (Ephesians 2:10). Oh Jesus, help our lights to be placed brightly on the mantles of our homes, workplaces, recreation and every other context of our lives. May they NOT be hidden beneath the baskets of sin, shame, doubt, complacency and every other light-hiding source that tries to distort the view, and thus the worth and value of the one, true God!
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