path_of_one
Embracing the Mystery
did you ask me about what I meant by worship or was that someone else ?
I said the question depends on how worship is defined. You defined it Biblically. I mistook your answer for a general one rather than your personal one. Misunderstanding.
but if people tell me they are God then I expect a demonstration of Gods power otherwise its not real.
There are many "powers" God has. God is, for example, love. God is the power, the force of love. "Biblical" Christians such as FS affirms this, as your own tag-line does. How is love expressed? Through us. Love is expressed through us, but the love itself is not of us, but of God. So God is in us, through us. God's power manifests in and through our lives.
To say that God is defined, for example, through creating the world in 7 days and so we are not part of God, since we can't do this... it puts God into a box. It defines God and then sets God up as an oppositional category to something else. But perhaps God does not "work" this way. Perhaps God is more like love, something that flows in and through other beings. In this case, God is defined differently- rather than being a separate entity that does something, God is a force or process, a State of Being that manifests through "individual" beings.
This means that anything can be worship, if it is done with a sense of the sacred. When I water my plants, if I do it with joy and love, it is worshipping God- God in the plants and God in me. When I hug someone who is crying, I am hugging God and I am being at one with God. I am manifesting God's love through me and sharing this, touching that which is God in another. As Mother Theresa said, "O Jesus- You who suffer, grant that, today and every day, I may be able to see you in the person of your sick ones and that, by offering them my care, I may serve you. Grant that, even if you are hidden under the unattractive disguise of anger, of crime, or of madness, I may recognize you and say, "'Jesus, you who suffer, how sweet it is to serve you.'" (No Greater Love)
From another Christian saint (St. Patrick's Breastplate):
Christ ever with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me
Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me
Christ to my right side, Christ to my left side
Christ in his breadth, Christ in his length, Christ in depth
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me
Christ in every eye that sees me
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I can think of no greater worship to offer than to offer my own self, to try to consistently offer myself as a vessel for God's love and power to flow through me and to be birthed into the world through aware, compassionate action. It is the best I have been given to offer God- to offer my life, my mind, my perceptions back to God and to serve God by serving that of God in the living beings around me. God is infinite and needs nothing. But God in each being can be served, comforted, loved, and cherished.