God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). So here’s an exhortation on worshipping God in spirit. Now we worship God by the Holy Spirit and we also worship the Holy Spirit Himself. But I am referring to your spirit at the moment. You must worship God in your spirit. He wants more than your hands and vocal chords. He wants more than your ears attending to words and your brain processing the nouns and verbs. You will come to eat bread and drink wine. But you must taste more than bread and wine.

You really have a spirit. Is it well? Are you bringing your spirit before the Lord today or is only your shell here? “Now, ” someone will say, “does this pastor think that my body can be present and my soul somewhere else?” It is not matter of geography. But, yes, the Lord said, “These people draw near to me with their mouth but their heart is far from me” (Isaiah 29:13). You must avoid that today by coming spiritually face to face with God. You must hear with the ears of your soul and see with its eyes.

There are angels in our midst. Is your spirit mindful of them? We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, who have gone before us. Does your spirit see them? Our Great High Priest sits enthroned before us. Does your spirit hear Him speaking?

When Elisha’s servant woke to see the Syrian army surrounding them at Dothan, he could not see that the mountain was full of heavenly horses and chariots of fire. But that fiery host was every bit as much there before God opened up the servant’s eyes as they were after he did so.

So it is with you right now. But do your eyes see? Do your ears hear the song of the seraphim? Will the tongue of your soul taste and see that the Lord Himself is good? Confess your sin and all of this is promised to you.