Jesus told the woman at the well ,“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.” John 4:23-24
Up to the point of Jesus coming, the people did not have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of them. Additionally, the truth they knew was hidden and had to be developed further in the person of Christ. There were many prophesies about the Messiah that had not been fulfilled yet. As a result, people were not clear about the true nature of the Messiah. Jesus became the fulfillment of truth that the Jewish people had been looking/longing for.
God chose the nation of Israel as the forerunner to his plan of salvation. At the arrival of Jesus, the scriptures were fulfilled right before people’s eyes. Jesus declared that a time was coming that the culmination of full truth and the spirit of God were going to be the only valid way of worshipping God. God is looking for such a worshippers!
Through Jesus, we became adopted as spiritual children of Abraham because of the same Spirit living on the inside of us. Truth and Spirit are vital parts of our worship and relationship with God.
The true worship fulfills God’s requirements and as a result it moves from the tradition of worship to relationship. The great God of universe is not longer found in a tabernacle, a geographical location, a statue, or a tradition. He desires for us to be in relationship with Him. We don’t talk to Him as if we were talking to a wall. There is no need for a “Wailing Wall”. He hears us from wherever and whenever we reach out to Him.
God is the inventor of relationships, and He allows man to be able to communicate in sophisticated ways. How is it that we desire and long to relate to our loved ones regularly but when it comes to God, we become cold, dry, and stoic!? Relationships are God’s idea. He not only designed relationship in order for us connect to each other, but we can also communicate to our heavenly Father.
Are you speaking to the Father as if you are relating to a dearly loved person? Is your conversation a monologue? Are you giving Him an opportunity to love you back and speak to you?
