The Nature of True Worship: Wholly Spiritual

     By A. W. Tozer
 

     Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man
     hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to
     him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
    -- Revelation 3:20
 

        One of the most liberating declarations in the New
     Testament is this: "The true worshippers shall worship
     the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh
     such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that
     worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"
     -- John 4:23, 24

         Here the nature of worship is shown to be wholly
     spiritual. True religion is removed from diet and days,
     from garments and ceremonies, and placed where
     it belongs in the union of the spirit of man with the
     Spirit of God!

         >From man's standpoint, the most tragic loss suffered
     in the Fall was the vacating of his innermost being by the
     Spirit of God. At the far-in hidden center of man's being
     is a bush fitted to be the dwelling place of the Triune
     God. There God planned to rest and glow with moral
     and spiritual fire. Man by his sin forfeited this
     indescribably wonderful privilege and must now dwell
     there alone.

         For so intimately private is that place that no creature
     can intrude; no one can enter but Christ, and He will
     enter only by the invitation of faith!

     Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
     voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
     with him, and he with me.
     To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
     throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
     Father in his throne.
     He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
     the churches.
  -- Revelation 3:20, 21, 22

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     Yours in Christ,
     Paul N.F.