John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
We must worship God as He truly is, as a Spirit, He is
not a man nor is He anything like a man. God has no body because He is a
Spirit. God as a Spirit is defined as - a current of air, that is, breath
(blast) or a breeze – Per Strongs. God has not body nor can He have because God
is Omnipresent which means He is always everywhere. God said of Himself in Acts
17:24 - 26 “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; (25)
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing
he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; (26) And hath made of one
blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”
Therefore, it must be concluded that God has no body, no hand, no brain, no
heart, no hand, not body part at all, He is a Spirit. The bible speaks of body
parts but only to make God’s actions understandable to us. For example, Jesus
said, John 10:28 - 29 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My
Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand.” For us to be safely in the hand of Jesus is
the same as being in the Hand of God. Jesus is expressing our security as the
children of God being figurative in the hand of Him and the Father. Jesus has a
body, and He has a hand because He is also the Son of man. We are as safe as
though we are tightly in God’s hand, and spiritually speaking we are in God’s
hand because He is Omnipresent. Since God is a Spirit, He cannot ever be absent
from us. He has promised that no matter what, He will never leave us, He is
forever with us. God does not dwell in temples made with hands, but He is in
the temples that are His and those temples today are called churches and the
bodies of every believer. For us to rightly worship God, we must first know
Him, know who He is, and know what He is, otherwise how can a person worship
Him if we do not know and understand Him. God said we must worship Him not only
in Spirit but also in Truth. A believer
worships God in spirit, when, under the influence of the Holy Sprit because it
is spiritually that we worship God. But also, God must be worshiped in Truth
because God is Truth, and He will only accept worship that is spiritual and in
truth. We must know and understand God’s being or else we cannot understand His
Sovereignty. Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 1:17 “Now unto the King eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.
Amen.” How is one to worship God in Truth, we worship His true being. To
worship God in truth is to worship Him according to His word, as He truly is.
God will not accept any other kind of worship because to worship Him any other
way is to falsely worship Him. Sometimes Christians ignore God’s word and
accept the teachings of worldly religions, this is a big mistake. If God is not
worshiped properly according to the scriptures, then your worship is useless. Just
because other forms of worship feels good to the flesh doesn’t mean it’s acceptable
to God. As Christians and churches, we must be careful and not allow ourselves to
get caught up in human feelings or in worldly attractions. Everything we do in
the form of worship must be strictly according to God’s word and our worship of
God must be in spirit and truth.
