It's sad to see people who claim to be followers of God's Word doing things that distance them from Him. They worship what they don't know without any idea of how to get to the Lord. Many waste their time with religious acts, making wrong decisions that don't lead them to God's presence, so they continue to suffer. We have a big job to do: to talk about Christ!

           It's not just because we're evangelicals that we can teach people the Truth. Accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior and serving Him were our best decisions. However, we need to live the revealed Word, which will continue to be expanded as we read the Bible and meditate on it: But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more until it is perfect day (Proverbs 4:18).

        Worship improves as we understand better who we are, what we can do and what the Lord expects of us. When we learn our rights in Christ, we act clearly until our last day in the world. The more we know how to worship, pray and take possession of God's gifts, the better off we will be. After all, we want to be overcomers in all things through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37).

           We can compare the worship of someone who doesn't know the Lord to a person who has bought a car and doesn't know the traffic laws. They may even go somewhere driving the vehicle, but they are likely to commit some infractions and, worse, cause accidents with material damage and loss of lives. However, if she learns the basics of driving, she will improve until she is a good driver.

          The Samaritans strove to worship God, like that woman who was in sin and didn't realize it. She felt that she was living outside of God's will, because she recognized that she didn't have a husband, but was living with a man as if he were her husband. How many people engage in wrong practices in the marital bed, even though they are married according to the law? When suspicion arises in your heart about something, ask the Lord for guidance.

           Many people give in to a certain sin even though they know it's wrong, because it's always been considered normal in their family. However, when they are convinced by the Holy Spirit that their attitudes are unbiblical, they must ask for forgiveness and abandon the error: Foods for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body (1 Corinthians 6:13).   

           Those who obey God worship what they know. You see, salvation comes from the Jews, from the Word that was sent to them, but they refused it: He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him (John 1.11). So Israel missed the time of the Savior's visitation. But Christ has come, and whoever accepts Him will become children of God (John 1.12). Life is in Jesus, receive Him now!

           In Christ, with love,

          R. R. Soares