What is worship? According to Google Dictionary, it is the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
But how many of us only express that in prayer while at services in synagogue or church? Or alone in prayer?
Shouldn’t worship be evident in everything we do, everything we say, and how we treat others?
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God tells us how he wants us to worship him and how he wants us to treat others. These instructions (or commandments, if you will) are found only in the Torah- after Deuteronomy, God never gives any new instructions, and that goes triple for the Christian teaching about some “Law of Christ”.
Yeshua (Jesus) was the innocent lamb of God because he was sinless, and the only way he could be sinless was to be in perfect obedience, all the time, to the Torah. The Torah was the ONLY scripture that existed then. His worship was evident through his obedience to his father’s instructions 24/7/365!
So, whatever you may have been told is some “Law of Christ”, if it isn’t what God said to do in the Torah… it is a false law.
Do you want to follow in the footsteps of the Messiah? Do you want to do as Yeshua did? Do you want to be in proper worship of God, all the time?
Then do as Yeshua did, which was living in accordance with God’s instructions for worship and relationships, which are (again) only found in the Torah.
That means praying or acting worshipful in your chosen house of worship is just the start because REAL worship of God is validated by everything you do OUTSIDE OF YOUR HOUSE OF WORSHIP!
Worship of God is how you speak to your friends, it’s how you react to being insulted, it’s how you contribute to charities, and it’s how you do not make a big deal of it, like some gantse macher (Yiddish for a “big shot” who is boastful or acts self-important) who does things to please people.
The greatest compliment I ever received was when someone once asked me if I was a believer because they noticed something about the way I acted. I am ashamed to confess that it happened a long time ago, and hasn’t really happened since- definitely not often enough for me to think I am worshipping as well as I should.
So, there is an old Jewish saying that when we look into the Torah, we should see ourself. That fits in very much with the promise God made through Jeremiah (31:31) when he said he would write his Torah on our hearts. If we are truly living examples of God’s Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) indwelling in us, then we should be living and breathing Torah.
Not some religious drek (Yiddish for garbage) about doing whatever we want so long as we “believe in Jesus”, are good people and love our neighbors. That will never get you anywhere, especially since every demon in Hell believes in Jesus (and they aren’t saved), and Yeshua himself said no one is good except his father in heaven ( Mark 10:17 and Luke 18:19), and Yeshua also said that even sinners love others (Luke 6:32).
If you truly want to worship God in a way that pleases him, and at the same time is living as Yeshua lived, then you need to live as best as you can (since no one can be 100% obedient) in accordance with the way God said to live, which is how Yeshua lived.
And, just to be sure we are on the same page, the only place where God said how he wants you to worship him is in the Torah.
Real worship is not a religion- it’s a lifestyle.
Oh, yeah- one more thing: Yeshua worshipped his father and if your religion tells you to worship Yeshua, then it is pointing you in the wrong direction. Yeshua came to do his father’s work, not to replace him.
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That’s it for today so L’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!