True Worship or Lip Service!

Matthew 15:8 "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me".

We Live in a very self-absorbed society where we have to work to stay away from the self centeredness we see around us everyday.We escape through true worship to Jesus.The word "worship" these days can conjure up images of a multi-piece worship band with hundreds of singers in a mega church setting. While true worship could be taking place in such settings and others like it, is this the worship that the Lord seeks from us?Many today claim they are worshipping the Lord in church houses all across the country every Sunday, but is this worship or just a part of  an organized religious ritual.Can we truly be worshiping God and at the same time have something against a soul that he shed his blood for?

Jesus said "this people draweth near to him with their mouth,and honour him with their lips".Many today talk about a relationship with Christ, we speak about how good he is, and how he has all power, and how he can do all things, and how he will never leave nor forsake you. We quote all the biblical saying with our mouth.We talk a good game, we give him great praise with out lips, we shout glory, we shout hallelujah,(as though by using words he is receiving the highest praise), we do all this with our lips, yet with our life we deny his person, his power, and his presence.Saint's we should worship God with our life,our whole life and every part of our life.Paul said present your body a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God.With all that Christ has done for us, should he be happy with the few hours a week we spend in ritulistic excersice that we call worship.

Jesus is the Son of the living God, the power of God, given to man and given for man, the door which allows us entrance into the kingdom of God.He is our way to  the throne room, the keeper of the flock, the blood by which we are made the righteousness of God, the perfect sacrifice for an imperfect people,and we pass off an outward show of scheduled entertainment as worship.God deserves our whole life,our personal life, our financial life,religious life, the good, the bad, the happy and the sad, he paid for it all. It belongs to Him, he said render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar, and to God that which is God's.Let our worship of God include a life of sacrifice, a life of giving, forgiving and love.Let us praise him with how we live that life.Give God your whole life, trust him,and cast all your cares upon Him.If you truly want to say hallelujah, live a life before man that shows the true character,and attributes of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Remember Mary worshipped the Lord, by covering him with expensive oil, now it wasn't the fact that the oil was expensive that mattered. It was the fact that she worshipped him with all she had, she didn't hold anything back,she felt there was nothing to good for the Lord.Saints are you giving the Lord all and the best that you have,or are you keeping something for yourself?Are you worshipping Him or is it just lip service.