Isaiah 1:11; Luke 3:23,32

How do we worship God?  What is the proper way to approach worship; does someone who has been a Christian for years worship differently than a new believer?  Does it matter?  During Isaiah's time, before Jesus came to earth, true worship involved sacrifice.  God called Isaiah to tell the people to change their ways.  One of the changes they needed to make was their worship practices and their devotion.

This holds true for us today as well.  Isaiah wrestled with the peoples' attitudes and priorities.  He was charged with leading the people to know God and obey God. The Scripture today is:

The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. 

“I have more than enough of burnt offerings, 

of rams and the fat of fattened animals; 

I have no pleasure 

in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

God wants our love and our worship, not messy animal sacrifice.  In Isaiah's day animal blood sacrifice was the accepted and expected vehicle to worship.  Because Jesus became the blood sacrifice, we can approach worship with just ourselves.  We come before the throne offering ourselves by submitting and surrendering our will.  We can lift up our hands and Praise our God in a worshipful pose.

Read the text here.