03.01.09
What Do You Worship?
Everyone worships some thing or things in their lives. What do you worship? Where does your time, money and attention go? That is probably what you worship. Many claim that they worship God but is that really true when we look at their checkbooks or see what they do with their time? So if people aren’t worshipping God what do they worship? Some people worship nature or reason. Recently I have been reading the Alcoholic’s Anonymous handbook because a friend of mine was trying to illustrate a point. I actually like what the book has to say about it so I will excerpt it here.
Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith? For did we not believe in our own reasoning? Did we not have confidence in our ability to think? What was that but a sort of faith? Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason. So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!
We found, too, that we had been worshippers. What a state of mental goose-flesh that used to bring on! Had we not worshipped people, sentiment, things, money and ourselves? p54 AA Big Book
2 Peter 2:19 says “ They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
The quotation from the AA book really illustrates what Peter is talking about. It really got me thinking.
David Pehrson said,
December 30, 2009 at 4:58 pm
This is not a comment but a question.
You have a picture (worship1.jpg). If this picture is copyrighted, we would like permission to use it as a logo on a site dedicated to individual testimonies of personal salvation. Thank you.
David Pehrson
Administrator said,
February 2, 2010 at 9:22 am
The picture is not copyrighted or owned exclusively by me. It is from the public domain.
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