The task and behavior required of Christians is not unknown or ambiguous. There is no need for us to make a list of our duties to God and our duties to mankind (which have become synonymous in these last days) that we need to preform, for there is but one reasonable service which God seeks: worship. The Christian duty of right worship sets all other priorities in due order; for above all else, God is first.
God has revealed His authority through scripture, and the humble will submit themselves to His word in order to know what is required and pleasing to Him. Christ told the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well that God seeks those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. The sons of the First High Priest, Aaron, sought to worship God their own way, and God struck them dead. Shall we, the children of no such noble birth, hope to expect a different outcome if we worship God in an idolatrous way? God forbid! For how shall we who are dead to sin expect to live spiritually while practicing false worship? True worship requires right knowledge of God and right sacrifice of things distracting us from Him.
The religions of this world give honor to themselves by worshipping their gods with show and pomp. They do their religious acts to receive praise for themselves, and this their sole only reward. Let this never be true of the children of God who worship Him in spirit and truth.
Natural man does not have a spirit to worship God in communion with the Holy Spirit because be is unregenerate. The spirit of natural man was killed by the disobedience of his father Adam, and Adam's offspring cannot understand spiritual things; indeed, they are foolishness to him. But those who are alive in Christ have a new spirit, and are described by the Apostle Paul as new creations of God. As the spiritual creation of God, go forth Christian and continually make yourself a living sacrifice to Him.
As one who has been given life by God alone, giving yourself in an act of humility to His authority is the spiritual service of worship that is both reasonable and necessary. Do not be like righteous Lot who had new life but sought contentment from the ungodly world around him. Instead, seek your contentment from He alone who can provide it to those vessels whom He has created to worship and thus glorify (please) Him.
Lastly, in your pursuit of worship do not forget the maxim, "God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble." Those who are humble submit themselves to the whole counsel and authority of God as found in the Holy Bible alone. We must worship God the way He prescribes not according to our feelings (which is pride). True worship is primarily objective, for when we follow truth the right feelings will follow, but if we follow our feelings truth will be obscured.
John 4, Ephesians 2:8-10, 1 Corinthians 2:15, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Numbers 3:4, Romans 12:1-3, 2 Peter 2:7-10
Seek truth and feelings will follow; follow feelings and truth will depart.
