To Worship and not Be Worshipped

When God created the beasts of the earth, air and water, He spoke and they were made.  Teeming thousands of animal species sprung into existence with a simple word of God.  When God made man He did it differently.  He formed man and then breathed the breath of life into man.  Man became, the Scripture says, a living soul.  Man was created with a unique ability to worship God, not just with the voice of praise, but with the whole being, body, soul and spirit. 

But fallen man was not content to worship God.  Man had fallen because he wanted to be like God.  He was not content with the inferior position of worshipping another.  As time progressed this became the pattern for man’s theology.  Man wanted to be like God, so man should receive worship like a god.  From tribal chiefs to emperors man claimed a direct descent from the gods.  (There were now many gods and not just One.)  Such descent meant that man was also a god and as a god was deserving of worship.

Contemporary man would scoff at such a primitive idea, but it would be a false scoffing.  We have elevated the product of our minds into being god.  Education for many is now god.  Politics and politicians for many are now god.  Economics and its solutions for man’s problems is now god.  Science with its perceived limitless possibilities is now god.  Anything that offers the hope of salvation for mankind is a god.  Since all these things come from man, then it is only logical that the dictum in modern thinking is that god is in us all. 

Our purpose was to worship and bring glory to God the Creator, the Redeemer, the Giver of life, the One True and Triune God.  We have corrupted that purpose into worshipping the strength and vitality that God has given us.  God’s gift to us of reason has evolved into the greatest god of our age.  Certainly we are not the only age of mankind to live in this error, but with time we are perfecting the doctrine to new heights of human glory. 

We can’t force all humanity to worship the true God, but we can willingly bring ourselves to sing His true praises.  With the ancient church in the grand hymn of Theodulph of Orleans we can worshipfully sing, “All Glory, Laud and Honor”.  (c. 800AD)

The company of angels are praising Thee on High

And mortal men and all things created make reply

The people of the Hebrews with palms before Thee went;

Our praise and prayer and anthems before Thee we present.  

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