Title DAY 10 Worship that pleases God
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. (Mark 12:30)
God wants our whole being. He does not want partial devotion or partial faith. He rebuked the people of Israel, who worshiped God and other gods as well, and said that he could not serve two masters with his heart. Worshiping God and worshiping other gods seems to be the same as not worshiping God. I opened the hymn to sing the hymn I sang today, ‘I truly love my Lord,’ and I thought for a moment when I saw the words ‘Do you love me more than others..’ under the hymn title. I have no desire to live after ambition or money, but I can easily say, “Yes. I couldn't say, "Lord." I just hope to love you more than before.
What I realized again today is that emotions are a matter of choice. When you say ‘rejoice always’, you mean ‘choose to rejoice always’. However, we do not rejoice without any ground, we rejoice in God, and we can rejoice in God who never changes. And sometimes we can openly pour out our feelings and approach the Lord. He said that what God wants is a broken heart, and it is the Lord who does not break a broken reed.
True worship is like offering a sacrifice, requiring sacrifice. Worship is not about fulfilling our satisfaction in worship, but about giving ourselves to God, giving our energy, time, and money. So, self-centered worship is not pleasing to God, but is pleasing when worship is free from self. When you enter true worship, there is freedom. For me, who is easy to live in my own prison because I have a lot of fear, true worship frees me from that fear and from the prison called ‘I’. I hope that a public worship service in which members of one body in the Lord worship together every week according to the order created by God will be such a worship service.