HOW TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH

There are three answers to this question.

First.   To worship God in spirit and truth means to worship God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, with a humble and true spiritual adoration in the depth and center of our souls that God alone can see. We can repeat it so often that in the end it will become a part of our very natures and will be as if God were one with our souls, and our souls one with Him.

Second.   To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. To worship God in truth is to recognize as a very present reality in our spirit that God is infinitely perfect, infinitely worthy of worship, and infinitely distanced from evil. He is infinitely greater than all the divine attributes ascribed to Him by man. What man, lacking in wisdom though he may be, could refuse to employ all his strength to respect and worship this great and infinitely worthy God?

Third.   To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, but that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. What man could be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration that we most justly owe Him?