Lings points out that the angel Gabriel taught Muhammad how to worship. The rituals that one sees in Muslim mosques of our day are meant to be replicas of the religious forms taught the Arabian. Prostrate. Five times a day. And so on.

Some might call this vain repetition. Lings tells a story of a burdened family that approached Muhammad asking for one of the captive slaves to be given them after a hard-fought battle. Instead of giving them what they asked for, Muhammad taught them to say many repetitions of phrases like "Glory be to God," "Praise be to God," "God is most great," etc. One can only imagine that it was the current Romanist religious system that gave Muhammad his ideas. Perhaps he had never met a genuine Christ-follower.

But worship, said Jesus, is an affair of the Spirit of God as wedded to the spirit of man. It is not in a particular place or in a particular way. The Father yearns for people who will worship Him in their and His Spirit and in accordance with truth.

Though we can easily believe that Jesus was taught the Jewish forms of worship as a child, and though we see Him in serious prayer, lifting His eyes to Heaven, the emphasis of Jesus and worship in the account, is of the worship that was directed to Himself, by others.

Disciples, the healed, the delivered, bowed before Him and gave Him glory. Never once did He reject it. In fact He could innocently pray, "Father... glorify Your Son...glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was."

A person who has gotten hold of a truth like that does not need to be taught how to worship. Whether Jesus or His followers, worship is spontaneous, from the heart. To know Him is to worship Him.