Posted by
Patriot Pastor on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:28:14 PM
The human race is so wired by God that he is left empty unless he exercises some form of worship. God wired man to worship his Creator but when man fell in the Garden of Eden, he slipped into rebelion against the One who loved him and created him.
It is interesting that those who do worship the God of the Bible live the healthiest and happiest lives of anyone. I have noted the faces of the women's libbers, the liberals who are members of congress and liberal media personalities where rarely is seen a smile on their faces. People who refuse to worship God end up worshipping something. Every people group that we have found in the remote parts of the earth are also helplessly bound to worship things or creatures. Man often deifies himself, as did the Roman Emperor, the Emperor of Japan did the same and Km Jink Il of China. If man doesn't deify himself he will carve an idol out of a tree, a rock, of silver or gold or another inanimate object.
In America, our idols are not so obvious to all. Man who does not worship God ends up worshiping movie stars, sports figures, Grammies, Emmies, sex, pornography, material possessions, houses, clothing, their own bodies etc. etc. etc. etc.
Do you get my drift? Man is going to worship something as Bob Dolens song says, "You're gonia serve somebody. It may be the Devil or it might be the Lord, but you're gonia serve somebody.
The greatest tragedy of all is that all mankind will eventually die and go into eternity. Here is where the rubber meets the road. Those who worshiped created things, instead of the Creator, will find themselves in the wrong line.
"Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:11-15
This is as serious as a heart attack! You and I are gonia serve somebody, so why not do what we were created to do, worship the One and only who created us and who can not only fill our lives with purpose, meaning and joy, but we will be in the right line after we die. Everything else will be burned up. Those who cling to stuff will possess only ashes and land in eternal torment. What a tragic end!
Ikester