What is "True Worship"?

 In the life of Job, we see the heavenly and earthly in one view. The life story of Job is influenced by heaven because the heavens interact with the earth. The God of heaven allows the god of the world, Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4), to invade the life of Job. Through Job’s story of suffering, we learn that God is not far off but nigh to us (Acts 17:27) at all times. 

The attack of Satan upon Job comes to support Satan’s belief that man is selfish and will only worship God because of the benefits that God gives to humans. For Satan, man’s motive for worshipping God does not come out of man’s love for God. 

Satan views man through Satan’s own desires. His motives taint his understanding of others and cause him to charge them mistakenly as being like himself. In the temptation of Eve, Satan instructs her that by eating the fruit, she will become like God and know good from evil! Isaiah gives us the knowledge that this was the desire of Satan to be “like the Most High” (14:12-14). Satan’s desire was not to be as God in God’s nature, holy, pure, and truthful, but to have God’s position as the most powerful and mighty who receives worship from all creation! In Job, according to Satan, selfishness is why humans worship God. You worship Him so you can receive the benefits of prosperity, family, and health. Job’s action during his suffering disproves Satan! There are creatures that God has created that worship God for who He is, not what God gives to them. 

To worship God for “who He is” is a truth that saints of God must grasp and hang on to during times of suffering. Your suffering does not mean that God is afar off! We must reach for God and worship God at all times, even in moments of despair during suffering! Remember: “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:22). Let’s go to a higher level and become a people who worship God out of love! Worship that comes out of the “love” motive is “true worship.” True worship is the worship that the Father seeks (John 4:24). Let’s frustrate Satan with “true” worship to our Creator and Savior!