What You Worship Matters
The elements of your faith life that are of eternal value as
you step into heaven, are what you must live for today. Heaven is a place where
worship is the focus[1].
Worship expresses humanity’s essential purpose that is why no one can worship
on behalf of another. It is an act every person does for him or herself to
accomplish something the "worshipped" cannot do for themselves.
If you do not worship God, you will worship something else.
This is dangerous because you eventually become more like the object of your
worship. That is why who you worship matters. In fact, at the heart of worship
knowingly or unknowingly, is the desire to be like your object of worship.
Worship is by nature an overriding obsession. What you worship becomes
something that dominates your life’s passion and behavior. Often we depend on
and hold nothing from what we worship, including our very lives. Even when done
privately, it always publicly shows one way or another. If the thing you
worship is wise, so are you. If it is powerful, so will you be. If loving so
are you. However, if you worship something lacking and insufficient you risk
becoming exactly that. If it is dead, you will die with it.
What if you discovered someone to worship who is all
knowing, all able, all present, all sufficient, all wise and all just, triple
holy and ALL LOVING? The Bible presents such a person. We owe to Him all praise
and worship. He deserves it so much that when you deny Him your worship even
the stones and nature cry out in your place[2].
Worship in its highest form focuses on God the person not just His gifts. When
you adore Him and seek Him for who He is not what He can give you, you begin to
worship authentically. True worship has God’s pleasure at the center even if it
means laying down your all on the altar. When Abraham was going to sacrifice
his only son, he said that he was going to worship[3].
Even more, worship is a form of dying so He can live through you. Worship
requires humility. Acknowledging that you cannot live without God and ultimately
allowing Him reign over everything that you are.
No comments:
Post a Comment