sunday morning recap

here's just a look into my notes from church this morning...

The Woman, The Well, and True Worship

Pastor Alex Tunnicliff

John 4:13-26

- you don't need that sin, what you need is Him

- FIX your eyes upon God

- don't miss the whole point of worship

- engage your heart in spirit and truth in your worship

- it's not just about feelings

- found your passion for Christ in TRUTH

- we're happy that we took the time for devotions instead of being happy 

that we are getting to know the Lord better

- in our minds we make Jesus like us, then we worship that view of "Jesus", when in actuality we are not worshiping Jesus at all we are just worshiping ourselves because 

we made Jesus fit into our mold

(sorry if these points are somewhat vague, and you don't know what i'm referring to; i've found that instead of trying to outline, little bursts of info are more helpful for me personally)

but yeah, the two that stood out the most to me are the last two points..

the first of the two hit me hard. how many times have i just been so excited that i set aside time for God that i forget to be excited about the reason that time is set apart. it's set apart so i can know him better! when i heard this i was like.. "woah, that's so me.." my thought process behind me devos has been totally skewed in the past, but i hope God will change that thinking to what He wants.

the second of the two also made me think. i guess i never thought of this before. how many times do we try to bring Jesus down to our level? we want Him to be like us. so we say we are worshiping "Jesus", but are we really? if we make Him out to be just like us, we are actually just worshiping ourselves. which is NOT good. again, our thinking is skewed. 

i for one, feel the need to definitely pray for God to fix the way that i think about devotions and Jesus.