What is the worship that is well pleasing to God?

Worship that is pleasing to God is more than just performing certain practices — it requires a person to cling to the Savior in his daily life. He should not be content with the letter of the law, but rather enter into communion with God, and grow in the knowledge of Christ. This is what the Lord Christ revealed when He was asked, “‘What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?’ Jesus answered and said to them: ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.’” (John 6:28–29).

St. Cyril the Great says, “But it was necessary that He should show them that they were still very far removed from the worship most pleasing unto God, and that they knew nothing at all of the true good things, for cleaving to the letter of the law, they have their mind full of mere types and forms … The work then of the pious soul is Christ-ward faith, and far more excellent is zeal for becoming wise in the knowledge of Him, than cleaving to the symbolic shadows.”⁶