7 Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
Psalm 139
The whole chapter is about how God knows you, sees you, intimately. You are always in his presence.
And when you're in the presence of royalty, you bow submissively.
This is what Jesus told the woman at the well: The time now is that you will not bow submissively in your temple on your hill, or my temple on my hill, but in spirit, and in truth.
"Worship" ("submissive bowing" in the Greek of this John 4:24 passage) is not a part-time thing; it's something to be done in every place and at every time you are in God's presence, which is as high as heaven, and as low as Sheol, and in every moment of your existence.
This is what Jesus told the woman at the well: The time now is that you will not bow submissively in your temple on your hill, or my temple on my hill, but in spirit, and in truth.
"Worship" ("submissive bowing" in the Greek of this John 4:24 passage) is not a part-time thing; it's something to be done in every place and at every time you are in God's presence, which is as high as heaven, and as low as Sheol, and in every moment of your existence.
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