Worship is a word that has been hijacked and associated with Christian corporate meetings. While this definition may be true at times, the word Worship has a far more broad definition.
Worship is defined as a verb in this way, “to feel an adoring reverence or regard for (any person or thing). “
If this is true, the idea that God is the only one who is capable of receiving worship falls incredibly short of reality. ‘Any person or thing’ indicates that what we may have hoped to reserve for the Almighty, may indeed be divulged to any object, regardless of its deity.
What would cause us to worship something, or someone other than the One True God?
There are some of us, if not all of us, who have been taught from the nursery that there are objects, people, days, and programs that are worthy of our adoration. Things like church buildings, pastors, Sunday school, denominations, etc. have each been exalted as places and elements of Christianity that are worthy of our adoration and worship. The problem is that we have robbed God of worship and offered it to these cheap replacements.
We have been molded and conformed into people who love religion over relationship, and our own building over the building up of the saints. We have been taught to love the statues and graven images of our religion instead of becoming a bond-servant to the one who saved us. We must, as the scriptures say, be transformed by the renewing of our mind, to replace worship offered to idols with authentic worship of the one who deserves our praise!
Conformed to the pattern of this world may not be the vile and disgusting activities that we see around us by those who do not believe, it may simply be the belief that something we have created is more worthy of worship than the one who created us.
May the spirit wash over you and may you see with new eyes, that which only He is able to show you!
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