YOU BECOME WHAT YOU WORSHIP

“People who make idols will be like them, and
so will those who trust them.”
Psalm 115:8
(New Century Version)

Worship shapes your life. Worship is used of any show of respect to someone or something to whom one feels indebted. Worship, or ‘worthship’, is shown to men, beings or things considered superior in rank. The person worshipping attributes great worth, value and appreciation to the person or object.
Throughout scripture, God commands his people to worship Him and Him alone. True worship carries the idea of showing reverence to God. It's an active, adoring response that declares His worth. True worship means to bow down and pay homage to the one true and living God. Worship to anything or anyone else is idolatry (Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7) which God hates. God, of course, knows that worship has transforming qualities and Romans 8:29 says, “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son.” It is through worship that this process of transformation occurs. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.” If we choose to worship something or someone else, the transformation still takes place. You begin to look like your decision! The question is not will you worship; it is whom or what will you worship. We may not make graven images of silver, gold or wood, but anything that we allow to come into the mind, permit to rise up in the heart, or to be mentally occupied and busy with more than GOD becomes an idol. An idol can relate to a thing or person which a man will not put out of his mind and esteems it higher than God’s law. (Read Ezekiel 14:3).
Today, take time to identify modern day idols. Could it be a person, career, leisure activities, status, money, education, self-image, or is it the American Dream? Do you trust in something or someone more than the true and living God? Do you attribute more worth and esteem to something or someone more than God? Are you looking more like Jesus each day? Take the time to evaluate your worship. God does. He is seeking for true worshippers that will worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24).