Who Do You Worship?

Who Do You Worship?

Scripture Reading: 1 John 5:18-21

Focus Verse: 1 John 5:21 “Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.”

Everybody on earth worships something or someone.  Even the atheist (who says there is no God) worships things or even self.  Whatever is most important to you is what you worship. Think about that for a moment.  What is most important to you?  What can you absolutely not live without?  Some people may say “I cannot live without my job.”  Some may say “I cannot live without my money.”  Some may say “I cannot live without my children, or my wife.”  There are a lot of people in this world that would say “they consider themselves the most important”, therefore they worship themselves.  

 

2 Timothy 3:1-3 says,  “In the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money.  They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful.  They will consider nothing sacred.  They will be unloving and unforgiving, they will slander others and have no self-control.  They will be cruel and hate what is good.”  I believe we are living in the days these verses are talking about.  I see these things all around me.

Let me ask you another question.  What is going to get you to heaven one day?  Is your job, or your money going to get you to heaven?   Are your children going to get you to heaven one day?  For those that are in a right relationship with God, there is only one answer to the question “what is most important to you?"  The answer is God, Amen.  There may be a lot of things and people who are important in our lives, but God should be the most important.  Jesus said in John 15:5 “without me you can do nothing.”  So, then, without God you can’t even take your next breath.  Even as Christians, we need to be careful to keep God as most important in our lives.  He is the only One we should be worshiping.

Bobby Johnson

Interlocking Ministries

"Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears."  2 Samuel 7:22