By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo.
Luke 4:7-8 "If you worship me, it will all be yours.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ ” Romans 1:25 "They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen."
Man is a spiritual being. Our natural tendency as part and fulfillment of our nature, is to worship. God made us to worship Him alone. Satan knows that, and seeks to divert man’s worship of God to himself. He gives man quick alternatives of worship other than God. This is how people worship idols and unique parts of creation like the sun, moon, rivers,trees, animals, etc. This is all to fulfill the natural longing in all men to worship.
Everyone is a worshipper, either of God, Satan, something or someone else, consciously or not. Even atheists are worshippers of something, but not God. Paul says the effects of worshipping the creature rather than the Creator, is perversion and God giving them up to all sorts of filth. Does that describe the blatant evil people are promoting today?
Eventually we come under the influence of what/whom we worship. The worshippers of God become more like Him. Those who yield and bow to Satan get filled with demonic spirits and manifest it in their lives. Worship is never innocent. It opens up a person to the spirit world of God or the demonic. Like it or not, whatever people do in their lives and leadership comes from their worship lives.
Worship only God Almighty!
Shalom children of God.