I'm discussing four related ideas: listening to God, doing what He says, learning about Him, and worshiping Him.
God said this to humans about Jesus, from the cloud at His baptism:
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”[/COLOR]
Or in Mark:
“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”At the transfiguration, God spoke from a cloud: [COLOR="Green"]“This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”[/COLOR]
In the conversation at Cana, Mary speaks first to Jesus, then to the servants. The last thing she is recorded to have said (excepting apparitions -- I'm not counting that) is:
“Do whatever he tells you.”OK, so we have a) listening to Jesus, and b) doing whatever He tells you.
LISTENING TO HIM:
For me, "listening" can come in many forms, and through the Holy Spirit, not only just the written word but even life circumstances and how our hearts react to them. Can I listen to the carefree bird singing along, and imagine Jesus saying, "I give you My peace, not as the world can give?" Or watching a baby laugh and laughing deeply within your heart, at the innocent joy that the Lord offers us all? What about silent prayer? What about work done with love? If we can "hear" or "see" or even "imagine" God in these contexts, we will have constant reminders of His love.
DOING WHAT HE SAYS
Next is doing what He says. Love one another. Love your enemy. Forgive others. Repay evil with good. These things are clearly what demonstrates our faith and what purifies us and trains our heart into understandings we can't learn from another person telling us about.
LEARNING ABOUT HIM
The third thing I want to throw in is "learning about" Jesus. That is, learning scriptural accounts of His life, and Church teachings involving His circumstances, His mother, the saints, and pretty much any academic learning about our faith.
As long as we do things with love, then:
First, listening for the Lord and His handiwork at all times, being aware of His gifts with every breath we take, brings wisdom. Second we have doing His works of love, guided by the wisdom. Third we have the scholarly knowledge which helps us a) communicate truths of our traditions and teaching to others in the world and in the future, and b) help put into context what it is we hear from or about the Lord through our life experiences from trials to celebrations (with passion).
I separate these out, because IMO these are three working parts of the puzzle that fit together well, in order to bring us a wonderful relationship with our faith, the Church, the Lord, and at the same time ourselves and others. Leave any one of them out, and I think it makes the others much more difficult.
WORSHIPING HIM
Finally, a comment: none of the three involve actually "worshiping" Jesus, because He came as a servant, and called us "friends." When He was called "good" He rebuked the person who called Him that. So we celebrate now with Him in heaven as He is risen, but when He was on earth I didn't see Him asking anybody to "worship Him" per se. I say the best way to worship Him is to a) listen to Him like God said to do, b) do what He says like Mary said to do, and c) learn about Him from the Church.
Of course we love to sing praise, and as a church musician I love to play music praising Jesus. And it's great that we recite prayers. Talking and singing about our praise for the Lord is wonderful, but without actually listening, doing, and learning, our praise IMO is not as full and our prayers may not be as heartfelt -- or more like heart-understand.

Alan