This is the first Sunday after Easter. We are in the forty days of Jesus’ time on earth. He was doing business unusual, appearing through closed doors and revealing himself to his disciples with an imperishable body.
The Lord still surprises us by revealing himself to us in different ways. Some of us interface with Jesus in sleep, in times of meditation, in our deep sins, the Lord appears in different ways and saves us, heals us or delivers us. He is the Lord and He decides to reveal himself the way he pleases.
In John Chapter 4, Jesus revealed himself to a woman who was deeply soaked in culture and yet uncertain of the environment around her. She was a Samaritan prostitute, a lonely woman. He worship was fixed at the mountain. Jesus appreciated and transformed her worship venue from a fixed place to the heart.
Jesus reminded the woman that much as her ancestors worship at this place, those who believe in me worship in Spirit and in truth. Worship can be done anywhere at any time. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Worship is giving
honour to God. It is a lifestyle, a pattern of life lived in the fear of the Lord. Worship is truth. In worship we are open before God.
The worship Jesus talked about must be motivated by our Love for God, must be sincere and originates from the heart of God.Our worship must conform to the revealation of God in scripture and be informed by who God is in our lives
and rooted in the reality of scripture. Worshippers must be embrace the person of Jesus as Lord and saviour.
Every human being has that inner desire to worship. That is why we need to have the right person or object of worship, in our case God through Jesus Christ.
The moment we lose focus that inner desire will cause us to worship other things (idol worship) instead of God. God created us in his image and he longs for fellowship with each one of us.
God is very great and has ability to do everything but it is important to know that he has left that vacuum of worship to us. Failure to direct our worship to him is equal to denying a mutual loving and warm fellowship with the Lord.
May God encourage all of us to be worshippers in truth and in Sprit.
The Very Rev. Canon. Dr. Rebecca Nyegenye
PROVOST