God Wants The Worship Of The Inner Person

"God wants more than ritual. God wants the worship of the inner person," Robert Webber, Worship New and Old.

From the beginning of creation and to the end, God has been pursuing His people. In the Old testament God made a covenant with Israel, "That they would be His people, and He would be their God," (Jeremiah 32:38). We know that Israel failed many times and it wasn't until the New covenant was made through Jesus Christ that the old one had been fulfilled. In the new covenant we are able to worship God in our inner most being, because we became the temple.

When I think about that first statement from Robert Webber and the idea of God pursuing me at all times, I can't help but be thankful and want to do so from my inner most being. I have to make sure that i'm not only expressing this from the outside, but that when I do so from my heart it is real and genuine. My God has done more than I could ever imagine for me and He continues to do so even now.

God wants the worship of the inner person and as you begin to do this it can only make its way to the outside. Let God continue to work in you until it comes from the inside out. This is a simple statement, prayer, thought, or whatever it may be, but the Lord works through the simple in order to do the complicated.

As I enter into this new season in my life I want to be purposeful with my time in the Lord's presence. My hope is that others would be encouraged to do the same.