serving and worship

Serve...

Worship...

used interchangably by translators...

Exodus...

Let My people go that they may serve Me... worship Me...

As long as the Israelites worked for Pharaoh... served him... they could not serve Him...

Trapped in slavery... His people could not serve... worship...

Trapped as slaves to sin... His people cannot serve... worship...

To worship is to have a heart of service for whatever it is you worship...

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey -- whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:16

Believers are no longer held by sin...

we are dead to sin...

freed by Christ...

Free to worship... serve... whom we choose...

A life free to serve Him...

a life free to worship...

We're in no hurry, God. We're content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. Who you are and what you've done are all we'll ever want.

Isaiah 26:8

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What is the state of your worship?
Who do you choose... the flesh... the Spirit... Life... death...?