My Gelled Hair!

     Before, I prepare myself by wearing formal clothes, wearing leather shoes, gelled hair and some perfume when we go to church every Sunday. I just quietly sit back and enjoy the fanciful performance and strange language the preacher preaches. I have nothing against them, but the church is not the place for worship. Let me explain my case.
     When Jesus left Judea and went back to Galilee; on his way there he had to go through Samaria. There he met a Samaritan woman who came to draw water from the well. Jesus asked for water and told her about the life-giving water and true worship. From John 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom to worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. But the time is coming and is already here, when the power of God’s Spirit people will worship the Father as he really is, offering Him the true worship that he wants. God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.”
     When Jesus said about people will not worship God on this mountain or in Jerusalem, he is telling that there is no ‘right’ place to worship God, and therefore, the church that we go on every Sunday, is not the ‘only’ place we could worship God. As he pointed out, God is Spirit, and so we cannot see God or where He is. That is why the physical place or structure where our church stands is irrelevant in our quest of true worship.
     The secret of true worship lies in God’s own Spirit within us. For it is within us that God sees our true nature, our motives, and our sincerity. It is in our hearts that God looks for not by our clothes we wear, the perfume we put or my gelled hair! God never had a Santa list that he writes how many times we go to church, or how many times we attend Bible studies or how much we donate. He looks into our hearts where our true self revealed.