Ignorant Worship

You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

John 4:22

As a pastor, I have come to realize that worship is the ultimate priority for which all of us were created. What does it mean to worship?

When Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman in John 4 about worship, He said, “You worship what you do not know.” How can you truly worship something without knowing what it is? How do you worship a God you don’t know? Paul calls that ignorant worship.

Last Sunday, churches across the country were filled with people who walked in to worship something they did not know. People engaged in ignorant worship, and nothing really happened in their church or in their lives. They went through the external motions without ever really understanding the internal working, and nothing happened because God does not accept ignorant worship.

Worship is knowing God and worshiping Him, and if we do not know God, we cannot worship Him. Make it a priority to know God.