Worship that pleases God

Day XCCIX

Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

Today our words of wisdom comes from the book of Rick Warren - The Purpose Driven Life. As he have said:
God wants all from us. God does not want a part of our life. He asks for all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and all of our strength.

He have mentioned Four characteristics of worship saying.

1. God is pleased when our worship is accurate
2. God is pleased when our worship is authentic
3. God is pleased when our worship is thoughtful
4. God is pleased when our worship is practical

He have said that when we worship as Jesus told the Samaritan woman,"True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks," To "worship in truth" means to worship God as he is truly revealed in the Bible.

When Jesus Said we must "worship in spirit" he wasn't referring to the Holy Spirit, but our spirit. Made in God's image, we are a spirit that resides in a body, and God designed our spirit to communicate with Him. Worship is our spirit responding to God's Spirit.

When Jesus said, "Love God with all your heart and soul" he meant that worship must be genuine and heartfelt. The Bible says, "Man looks at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart."

Jesus command to "Love God with all your mind" is repeated four times in the New Testament. We should be  fully aware and specific with our knowledge how we worship God.