It’s in the secret place of worship that a true picture of ones life is seen. One of the main reasons for man’s existence is to have fellowship and communion with God. (Luke 22:39-41)
In John 4:21-24, Jesus states that the Father seeks true worshipers. He says nothing of the song we sing, but rather the character of the one who approaches God. Worshiping in spirit means worshiping with every aspect of our being. Worshiping in truth means worshiping with integrity.
Moses met with God away from others and was so impacted that he had to have his face covered. Meeting with God changed him. (Exodus 34:29). People will notice when you have been with God.
A.W. Tozer once said, “It is my experience that the totality of our Christian lives, our entire attitude as persons, must be towards the worship of God! If you do not know the presence of God in your home , then God is not in the church you attend”. That is pretty strong, but true. True worship in the presence of others is a result of meeting God in the secret places of our lives.
As well as the secret place of worship, there is the secret place of sin. We cannot fool God, no matter how much success we have fooling people. Singing songs of worship on Sunday does not change what God knows about us.
Again, Tozer cries, “God is a being of supreme moral excellence. Any proper relation to Him must be by confidence, that is faith. Idolatry is the supreme sin and unbelief is the child of idolatry”. It is not in the public eye that we usually sin because we know that an immediate response of shock would come back to us. The problem is that if we harbor sin in our lives, it is like choosing to keep an infection which will only spread and have a fatal result.
At the 1993 annual meeting of The American Heart Association, 300,000 doctors, nurses and researchers met in Atlanta to discuss, among other things, the importance a low fat diet plays in keeping our hearts healthy. Yet during meal times, they consumed fat-filled fast food, such as bacon cheeseburgers and fries, at about the same rate as people from other conventions. When one cardiologist was asked whether or not his partaking in high fat meals set a bad example, he replied, “not me, because I took my name tag off”.* Do we choose to take our “name tags” off to indulge in sinfulness?
Does our secret sin show that we do not love, trust, and have faith in God like we say we do in our songs? Do we live what we sing?
We often spend much time and effort for the things that are seen and little attention on the unseen. The fact is that there is much more that is not seen! Consider for a moment, the icebergs that float in the Northern Atlantic ocean. 90% of the ice berg is hidden beneath the water. We do well to address the secret place of worship and the secret place of sin. We appreciate your Comments
*The source of this story is unknown.