True Worshipers

If you were to ask the average person this question: “Why do you think that God has granted you life and placed you here on planet Earth?” I dare say that probably not 1in a 100 could give (or is even aware) of the correct answer.
As human beings, each and every one of us have been created for the same and exact purpose—“We were all created to Praise and Worship Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ!” Sadly, most people in our world still fail to realize that this is why God made them in the first place.
Nevertheless, God will not force anyone to worship Him; it is why He made each of us a free moral agent- giving every individual our own right to “choose” whom or what we will worship.
God also granted this same privilege to the angels. But God’s angelic praise director, Satan (then called Lucifer); he wanted all the worship for himself. It was why he led a rebellion in heaven and was cast out, taking with him a 1/3 of the angels who, believed his lies, and chose to worship him instead of God.
Throughout the ages, Satan hasn’t changed at all; he still desires all our worship and all our praise. This is why he offers mankind so many other “options” for their worship; for he knows that for them to worship anything other than the “True and Living God” in essence, it is actually worship offered to him.
Just look around us and you cannot help but notice that “All men do truly worship something.” I have also taken notice that even among those who claim that there “Is no God” you will find that, they too, still busy themselves worshiping something. For into mankind’s very DNA there is this desire to worship.
If you want to find out what a person worships, just listen to their conversations for a little while—for the words that come out of our mouths have this tendency to reveal. And they will always reveal those people, places, things, and/or ideals that hold the highest priorities in our lives…literally, “These Are the Things That We Worship!”
As human beings, we worship those things that gratify our senses (whether they be good or evil); we worship our accomplishments; and we surely don’t mind giving praise and worship to those creations that we may have fashioned with our own hands.
But we won’t stop there, for can continually be found worshiping others (sometimes even idolizing our spouses and/or our children), and we especially seem to enjoy worshiping ourselves. …But what God needs from us today are for each of us to GIVE HIM “ALL” OUR WORSHIP AND ALL OUR PRAISE!
Yes, we are all worshipers. And either we are worshiping the “True or Living God…” or else we will be found worshiping “another god…” the one that “WE” have replaced the “Real One” with.
We are all created in the likeness and the image of God. And that was done so that each of us might (willingly) be worshipers of Him! For, you see, “Our Worship” is the only tangible thing that any of us have the ability to create (in and of ourselves) and give back to God that does not represent something that He had already given to us first.
And when it comes to “US” giving God “TRUE WORSHIP” it ought to be a worship that is not contingent upon whether or not others worship Him either.
You see, “True Worship” comes from the depths of our innermost beings. “True Worship” rises above anyone else's ability to manipulate or to coerce it out of us. For “True Worship” willingly pours out from the depths of one's innermost being freely and spontaneously. And it will do so all because we are willing to allow ourselves to become “Consumed with a Passion” to immerse ourselves in God’s presence!
God please help me to always be a “True Worshiper” of You!
Just a Thought,
Pastor Ken Jones