John·The Father·10 of 34
Spirit and truth
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:24 · King James Version
What God is, worship must match. Spirit is not approached by a merely outer rite.
An inner reading
Spoken beside a well, to a woman whose people argued about the correct mountain, this saying moves worship off the map. If God is Spirit, then God is not a location, a lineage, or an argument about either. Spirit is incorporeal presence — real, but not an object among objects.
Truth, paired with spirit, keeps the saying from floating into vagueness. Worship in truth is agreement with what is, not a mood and not a performance. The metaphysical invitation is exacting: stop trying to place God, and meet God in the only medium God is — living awareness, honest all the way down.