Seize the Moment – Day 469
Worship in Truth and Spirit!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, June 29.
Have you ever written a song or poem about who God is and what God has done in your life?
Moses did! That is what Exodus 15:1-18 records. Listen to the first three and last two verses of his song,
I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will extol Him. The Lord is a warrior; The Lord is His name. … You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. The Lord shall reign forever and ever.
Moses is singing a new song! A song that he wrote after God demonstrated His miraculous power to rescue Israel through the ten plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea.
Moses’ song praises God for who He is, what Has done in the past, and what He will do in the future. His song is filled with both faith and hope!
This is the heart of worship: to praise God for who He is and to declare what God has done, is doing, and will do. When we do this, whether in a song or poem or dance or some other medium of art and self-expression, we are worshipping God in truth and spirit.
Jesus said in John 4:23-24, “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. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Seize the moment and express your faith in a song or poem or art form today. Worship God in truth and spirit.