God Desires Pure Worship....
God wants our worship to be "pure". The definition for pure is "not mixed or adulterated with any substance or material". It also means without extraneous or unnecessary elements.
It's funny how we seek purification in so many areas. We want purified water, we want organic foods, we want a clean house, clean clothes, etc. but we don't see the necessity of purifying ourselves before God. We overlook the process that the priests had to go through in order to go into the "Holy of Holies". Into that holy place with God. We overlook the "laver".
It's true, God said come unto Him just as we are. But once you enter into the presence of God....the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Great "I AM", some things should change. Desires should change. Hearts should change. Once you come and dwell with royalty.....you should desire to be as "royalty". You come into a place of eating what royalty eats and drinking what royalty drinks. Your consumption should be that of royalty and not that of the world.
The problem is, we want to take the same things we consumed in the world into the presence of the God Our attitudes, our actions, our limits.....how we think, what we listen to, and so on. But God wants us to let go of the past....to let go of our way of doing things and live holy. He desires that we live kingdom minded and not world initiated.
When the world initiates something, the end result is usually sin in some form. Whereas, if we live kingdom minded, our sole purpose and our sole desire will be to please God. We won't just do anything, we won't just say anything, we won't just listen to anything.....and we won't just live like anything. We will accept our status of royalty and live as children of the King. At that point, our hearts will be clean and our worship will be pure.
Worship For Today
In The Presence Of Royalty
Ministered By Byron Cage
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