Made to Worship

Part of the evidence for God is how each one of us is created to worship. It’s in our nature, and is meant to motivate us to seek out the one true God so we can direct our worship toward Him. If we don’t learn to worship Him we will worship other things.

Many men and women have chosen sex as what they worship. They are fully consumed by their need to satisfy whatever is between their legs, and they will do anything to make sure they can. Many others have chosen to worship money, and spend their whole lives trying to accumulate wealth they want to keep to themselves. Some worship television, and commit their days making sure they are home at a certain time every Thursday night so they don’t miss a moment of these stories that will never positively impact their lives. Others choose video games, and would rather pretend to be someone else during every waking hour. Many parents, both in the church and out of it, choose to worship their children. A lot of people worship stuff, and can’t stop thinking about the new material thing they have to get to feel complete. Some cast off everything, but by doing so choose only to worship themselves.

Every one of these things is a pitiful substitute for God, and does us more harm than good. Worshiping sex causes us to cheapen what was meant to be a wonderful thing done between a man and a woman, and encourages us to view others as nothing more than objects that can satisfy us until we move on to someone with nicer boobs or more chiseled abs. Money is a false God that will never stop demanding we get more of it, for there will never be enough for us to feel secure. There will always be a new interesting television show to drain us, a new video game to take up all our time, or a new product that advertisements tell us our lives won’t be complete without. The problem with worshiping our children is they’ll believe us, and will always behave as if they are the center of the universe. Worshiping ourselves is perhaps the most pathetic, for it will leave us old, broken, and alone.

No false gods will ever satisfy us. The sin of worshiping them will destroy us, and the only one who can save us from their destruction is the one true God who loves us. He loves us so much He sent Jesus to die for us so we could spend all eternity with Him. Worship the One who created, and not the things He created. Sex, video games, money, children, and many others things are not bad things. They are just bad gods. We need to worship, but should not worship them. We should worship God.