In a tropical rain forest a tribal chieftain bows before a crude figure fashioned from sticks and stones bound together by jungle vines. In St. Louis the CEO of a major corporation spends all day Sunday with a group of wealth power brokers, conspiring how to drive stock prices up. Somewhere in Asia in a fantastically ornate temple a young man burns incense before a lavishly decorated Buddha. At a gym in Denver a young man moves from pose to pose, admiring the mirrors’ reflection of his years of grueling training and drug use. In the heartland of America, a small group of locals meet in an unobtrusive building in a small Nebraska town to sing and pray together. A group of LA high school kids meet their suppler in a parking lot before hitting the rave party circuit. A man in the suburbs of Detroit spends the entire morning meticulously washing and waxing his foreign-made sports sedan, while his teenage daughter spends hours in a poster-plastered room listening to CDs by her favorite rock superstar. In Michigan a lady spends three hours meticulously primping and grooming herself before leaving for work. All of these people are worshiping. (modified & expanded thought of Jack Hayford)
Man is a worshiper by nature whether we acknowledge our worship, understand that we are worshiping or recognize the object of our worship as deity, we all worship something. The object of our worship may be money, possessions, our job, goals, ideals, self worth, education, power, control, our body, desires, pleasure, intelligence, goodness, sex, drugs, other people, thrills, etc., - we all worship something. And some of us worship the God who created the heavens and the earth. But we all worship something for man is a worshiper!
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