What/Who Do You Worship?

Day 4 – Read Judges 2:11-17

Do you know any who worships or serves Baal?  What about the Ashtaroth?  Probably not.  In fact, it is likely that most people who admit to worshipping anything, would say that they worship God.  As a result, today, we mostly think of idol worship as something that happened in the past.  Similarly, most people would admit that there is evil in our society but would probably also feel that evil is largely isolated to a small percentage of “bad” people and isn’t exhibited by the majority of people.  We tend to have pretty small specific boxes for things like idol worship and evil.  Idol worship includes little gold figures that we bow to and evil is reserved for things like murder, rape, kidnapping and molestation.  But those are narrow views of idolatry and evil.  If you were to do an honest assessment of our society, what would you say we worship?  Is it God, or something(s) else?  The truth is, God is on the list of many, many things that we worship but He is far from the only thing.  We worship all sorts of things like; people, T.V., movies, sex, sports, food, cars, money, success……  We were created to worship and we all do it and sometimes God is the object of that worship but rarely is He THE object of our worship.  While we underestimate the number of things we worship, we also tend to minimize what we consider evil.  Usually evil is stuff that other people do but not stuff that we ourselves do.  But really, evil is anything outside of God’s plan, aka sin, all sin.  Take some time to think about your life; are you worshipping anything other than God (i.e., your family, your hobbies, your money, your stuff, etc.), are you ignoring God’s will in any area of your life?  When/if God reveals things to you, repent of those things and ask God to help you worship Him alone and follow His will for your life.