PRAYER
True Worship of God
True worship of God is not external adoration of man-made objects, but the wise and loving use of God's gift, which is Himself, residing within as one's own…
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The Potters House
The worship of God is simply using His gift. His gift is Himself. He gave me Himself! That is the true and real worship of God – not to get before something that human hands made and put up on the wall and then crosses himself for luck, but that is what the world does. They make some little thing and then worship it – that which is made with the human hand. No, the God I worship, and the God that the whole vast world will worship – to worship Him is simply using His talent. He said, “To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away,” as we are told in the 25th chapter of the book of Matthew. (Matthew 25:15) He went away – in other words, He became invisible. We are told, He becomes invisible, so He is not objective for me to worship. He takes His residence in me. He became as I am, and I’ve got to actually use that talent, and use it wisely. I use it wisely every time I exercise my imagination lovingly.
True worship of God is not external adoration of man-made objects, but the wise and loving use of God's gift, which is Himself, residing within as one's own imagination (the 'talent'). God became invisible by taking residence in man, making the exercise of imagination the real act of worship.