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True worship

Deuteronomy 13:11, “Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.”

There are some commands by God in the Bible that just totally baffle the human mind. In the verses just prior to these God command’s the slaughter of any person that tries to draw us away from Him. I can understand why some people say that there is a God of the Old Testament full of wrath and judgement, and another God that Jesus spoke of in the New Testament full of love, mercy and forgiveness. I’ll be honest some commands that are given by God do not sound very loving, but they are given to us to prove His love not His wrath.
Jesus said in Matthew 18:7,”Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks ! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come ; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes !8″If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.9″If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you.It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.”That does sound like a loving God. God who created us loves us so much that He gives us a warning, and a command to get rid of anything and everything that interferes with our worship of Him because we must come to Him without any interference, and the reward that we will get is far better than we can imagine.
While He was talking with the woman of Samaria Jesus said in John 4:23,”But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth ; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.24″God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God desires true, undiluted worship and nothing else will do. On the cross of Cavalry He gave us His best, and He expects nothing less from the children He saved.
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Father, I thank You for loving me with a neverending love, and I ask that You help me return that love in an acceptable way. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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