Do you enjoy worship services? Do you enjoy walking into the church on Sunday morning? Does it feel as though you are walking into a holy place? Are your spirits immediately lifted? Do you prefer light over dark? Do you prefer day over night? Do you want to live in perpetual light?
Some church buildings are grand and awe inspiring, while others are plain. Yet, walking into any one of them can lift our spirits. It is not the accoutrements that make the place holy, it is the worship that takes place in it. It is the praises sung, the prayers offered, and the Scripture studied.
We may wonder if we will be in a perpetual worship service for eternity. First, we are told there will be no church building. God is the temple. Yes, we will worship him all day long. However, not in the form we do on Sunday mornings. As Jesus told the woman at the well, we will worship in spirit and truth. We will see him with our own eyes. We will no longer need to imagine what God may look like.
Additionally, there will only be day. There will be no night. Though this may be a strange concept for us, we will no longer live in the bodies we live in today. Why will there only be day? The Lamb of God will be our light. His radiance will shine throughout the new earth and the new Jerusalem. We will see His light and be in His presence, which will be just one reason for our continual worship as we live our lives with Him. God’s glory will shine all around us.
I pray we all seek to worship God in spirit and in truth. I pray we are in awe of God. I pray each one of us look forward to seeing his glory in person and living in his glory for all eternity. Worship God in spirit and truth. Be in awe of God. See his glory. Live in his glory.
Revelation 21:22-23 I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Marty Pressey 