You, my friend…are a worshiper!
There, I said it.
Everyday, all day long, everywhere you go, you worship. It’s what you do. It’s who you are.
We all are worshipers, created to bring pleasure and glory to the God who made us.
I don’t know whether or not you consider yourself a “worshiping” kind of person, but you cannot help but worship—-something.
It’s what you were made to do.
Should you for some reason choose not to give God what He desires, you’ll still worship something—exchanging the Creator for something He has created.
Think of it this way: Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most.
That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day. Because, worship is about saying, “This person, this thing, this experience (this whatever) is what matters most to me…it’s the thing I put first in my life.”
Worship tells us what we value most. As a result, worship determines our actions, becoming the driving force for all we do.
So how do you know where and what you worship?
It’s easy. You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your loyalty. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.
The trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.
Excerpted from Wired for a Life of Worship © 2006 by Louie Giglio.