THE STORY OF JESUS: John 4:16-26
“God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in Spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24)
In Jesus, God becomes human to bring us back to what really matters.
Without God, our hearts are empty and we fill them with empty substitutes.
Like multiple marriages or relationships, or religious rituals and traditions.
Jesus shows this woman how empty her life is, and makes her thirsty for God.
Is your relationship with the invisible God deep, real and personal?
Do you sense God as real, and with you, and in you, and speaking to you?
Is your worship just ‘going to church’ or ‘singing songs’?
Or do you actually sense God with you, and do you express your heart to Him?
Singing worship songs is as empty as going to this or that mountain (v.21).
God is spirit, and God knows our spirit, and all the mess and misery within.
God wants to relate to us spirit to spirit, heart to heart.
We can’t produce this relationship, but we can open ourselves to it.
Think about God, take time to pause and feel God’s presence or to see His blessing.
Thirst for God with sincerity and authenticity, and He will satisfy your spirit!
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, I genuinely do want to sense You and God with me all the time. May my spirit sense Your Spirit, as I open my heart to Your heart!
Heart knowledge.
Jesus knows all.
He crossed over the boundary lines – racial, ethical, religious, gender.
He knows my heart.
He knows me.
And I seek Him everyday.
I speak to Him each day.
Where did I see God today is a question I need to ask each day.
I am walking and talking in His presence as He continues to lead and guide me along the Way.
He speaks to me each day.
1 Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart,
wean it from sin, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as you are,
and make me love you as I ought to love.
2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no opening skies;
but take the dimness of my soul away.
3 Did you not bid us love you, God and King,
love you with all our heart and strength and mind?
I see the cross there teach my heart to cling.
O let me seek you and O let me find!
4 Teach me to feel that you are always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unceasing prayer.
5 Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the fullness of the heaven-descended Dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.