Sunday mornings at church are often referred to as a "worship service." But worship isn't a service or a duty. It's a response. It's your personal reply to God's goodness, power, majesty, and love.
But what do you worship, really? Approval, financial security, youth, talent, or food?
Having the picture-perfect summer home or snacking on the world's richest cheesecake can make you feel good for a while. But they possess no real power - or answers to anything that truly matters.
Only God is worthy of our worship and our love.
Some people even worship their pastor and/or their church. It is wonderful to have a great pastor and even a great church, and especially wonderful if you have both - but we must be careful -The pastor is not the source of God's power, he is merely an extension cord to the source, Jesus.
Every now and then, I'll see someone post a Facebook status that says, "I love my church!" and rarely ever see them post "I love Jesus!" Jesus saved us, not our church or pastor. We have to remember that anything or anyone we worship before we worship God are idols and that includes a church or a pastor.
Psalm 40:4 says, "Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God, turn your backs on the world's "sure thing," ignore what the world worships.
Blessings,
Dalinda
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