We have the image of men on their knees extending their arms toward heaven and falling repeatedly on their faces. Modern thinking suggests worship is limited to such activity. We assume that ancient Israel did not worship Jehovah until they entered into the tabernacle and fell on their faces.
Alma asked: 'do ye suppose that ye cannot worship God save it be in your synagogues only?' (Alma 32:10)
The truth is that the very act of building the tabernacle and making all preparations in the service of God was worship all the time. Our rise from bed, our care for our mortal tabernacle, our care for our family, all we do can be worship of our Master. The wise men that visited the Infant Jesus worshipped Him. Many worshipped our LORD while on His ministry.
The prophet Nephi teaches that we must all worship Jesus Christ, the Son of God. For he said: 'And now behold, I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out.' (2 Nephi 25:29)
We worship Him in our prayers, in our baptisms, in our anointings, in our temples, in our songs, in our service; we worship Him with all our might, mind, strength, and soul.
As the LORD said, we cannot serve God and mammon. (Matt. 6:24 - that is a scripture mastery this year for all you seminary students.)
When we work for money, for gain, we serve mammon and engage in idolatry. When we serve the LORD alone, we worship Him. We need not think that our worship begins and ends with sacrament meeting or an endowment session.
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