Final Episode => How to Worship
Jehovah
How we
worship Jehovah is important. We should worship in the way that he says, even
this may be different from the way we have been taught. For example, it has
been the custom for some people to use images in their worship. They may say
that they do not worship the image, but that seeing and touching it helps them
worship God. Yet does God want us to worship him with the aid of images?
No, he does not. And for this very
reason Moses told the Israelites that God never appear to them in any visible form.
(Deuteronomy 4:15-19) in fact, one of the Ten Commandments says: “You shall not
make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything . . . you shall not
bow to them or serve them.” (Exodus 20:4, 5, the Catholic Jerusalem Bible) Only Jehovah should be worshipped. Over and over
again the Bible shows how wrong it is to make an image or to bow before it, or
to worship anyone or anything except Jehovah.— Isaiah 44:14-20; 46:6, 7; Psalm
115:4-8.
As we might have expected, then, Jesus
never used an images in worship. “God is a spirit,” he explained, “and those
worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) Acting in this
harmony with this counsel, none of Jesus’ early followers used images as aids
in worship. In fact, his apostle Paul wrote: “we are walking by faith, not by
sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) and his apostle John warned: “Guard yourselves from
idols.” (1 John 5:21) Why not look around your Home and ask yourself whether
you are following this advice?—Deuteronomy 7:25.
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