{{2010_06_24_t1.jpg}} {{2010_06_24_t2.jpg}} {{2010_06_24_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2010_06_24|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_ii|| Topics Collection ii ]] ======Worship 3 - Put things together the right way ...====== Thursday, June 24, 2010. With respect to worship we are asked to put things together in the right way. We are asked to live our worship! {{2010_06_24.jpg }} **Interior and Exterior** Assume we go to God and ask him to do something. Then, the next day, there is someone else coming to us and is asking us, to do something as well. Assume that both requests are somehow reasonable. How should he treat the request? Jesus tries to teach us: if we want grace and help from the Lord, we should also be willing to treat other people in the same way. We are asked to live in grace and to live out helping other people. We cannot say no all the time to others, but think that God will give us what we ask him. Our interior and our exterior should fit to each other. When we worship the Lord, our interior should be filled with his grace as well. Our heart should be filled with his love, with his dedication, with his truth and joy. {{ 2010_06_24_2.jpg}} **Manipulation versus Faith** Humans always live in a particular danger. We are in the danger to try to manipulate God. We try to reach our goals. Our religious behavior can have mainly one purpose: to reach what we want to reach. Then, faith is merely a tool to reach personal goals. That is a form of manipulation. However, the faith the bible talks about is different. It is trust in the Lord. It is dedication of our heart. It is a new life, which is filled by the purity of the Lord. It is no longer our own purpose, which we realize when we come to the Lord. It is his purpose, which is realized in and with us. We become a part of him. We are filled by his spirit. We have left our egoistic self behind, and started to live differently, in a community of trust and faithfulness. We are invited to a worship, which is full of truth, full of faith - and far away from any manipulation. We are called to true worship! [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_ii|... more texts]]