Worship in spirit and in truth

I answer, God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Yes, and this is enough. We ought to employ the whole strength of our mind in this. But then I would ask, What is it to worship God, a Spirit, in spirit and in truth? Why, it is to worship him with our spirit, to worship him in that manner which none but spirits are capable of. It is to believe in him as a wise, just, holy being, of purer eyes than to behold iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13), and yet merciful, gracious, and long-suffering, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin (Exodus 34:7), casting all our sins behind his back (Isaiah 38:17), and accepting us in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6). It is to love him, to delight in him, to desire him, with all our heart and mind and soul and strength (Mark 12:30), to imitate him we love by purifying ourselves even as he is pure (1 John 3:3), and to obey him whom we love and in whom we believe, both in thought and word and work. Consequently, one branch of worshipping God in spirit and in truth is the keeping of his outward commandments. To glorify him, therefore, with our bodies as well as with our spirits (1 Corinthians 6:20), to go through outward work with hearts lifted up to him, to make our daily employment a sacrifice to God, to buy and sell, to eat and drink to his glory (1 Corinthians 10:31), this is worshipping God in spirit and in truth, as much as praying to him in a wilderness.