Truth in the inner parts

Surely you desire truth in the inner parts

-King David

(Ps. 51:6a)

It was interesting to browse the mobile phone handsets on display here in the market.  I refrained from buying the all attractive 3G 16G iphone after deciding that the quoted price was still a bit much here compared to the price in the states.  However, what you could get here in terms of fake goods is often unbelievable!

The salespersons introduced the fake handsets with some clear hint of amusement and one came across brands like ‘Sansung’; ‘Nakia, etc., etc.  mofăng (模仿) is Mandarin for 'copy or imitation' and píngŭo is for 'apple'.  Try and see the difference between the original and copy version of Apple iphone here:

Most of these fake handsets look very much like the original; however a few tests would reveal that they aren’t for real and wouldn’t last for long.  Just open and see the inside and what you see will tell you that it’s better to buy the real McCoy or none at all.  The battery had a warning telling me not to recharge it while it’s still inside the phone and recommended using a wall charger.  There are more issues that told me not to get one but for the sake of finding out what it was all about I browsed and tried a few of them.  The presentation was often interesting and impressive at times.  Well, at the copy capital of the world most of the things can be copied.

Most of the time in life we act what we don’t feel.  There’s a bit of an actor in all of us and the Bard had said “all the world’s a stage” and we all know it’s true.  It’s easy to fool people but we know what is really inside us.  So, with this constant practice of acting and convincing people of what we want them to feel and think about us we get better each day I guess.  However, when we bring this part of our nature into our worship and relationship with an omnipotent and omniscient God it doesn’t work at all.  To the Samaritan woman He said his Father was looking for worshippers who will worship in spirit and in truth not only in Jerusalem.  That was to say that the true worshippers could worship him from anywhere (not only in a building) as long as it is from the heart, that’s what he is looking for.

It’s been over a hundred years and I believe we still have a long way to go in our walk with him.  It’s not only about corporate practice of faith but it is about relationship and communication at the spiritual level - ‘worship from the heart’.  We have to realise the essentially important ‘closing of the door and kneeling to him in private’ so that we may get our reward not from the praises of people but from him who is in secret.

Are you truthful in the inner parts, that’s the all important question.  He saw you last night as you celebrated Christmas Eve.  And he knows and sees you wherever you are.  He wants true worship from the inner parts that might begin with telling him what you have done and he is ready and willing to forgive those who have broken and contrite spirit.  That's what he came here for more than two thousand years ago.  Merry Christmas!