Made for More

I don't care who you are, where you come from, or what you do...we're all made to worship.  Whether we want to admit it or not, we all worship.  It's what we were created to do.  It's just a matter of what we choose to worship.  Louie Giglio put it this way: 

Worship is simply about value.  The simplest definition I can give is this:  Worship is our response to what we value most.

Every once in a while we all take a good, long, hard look at where our priorities fall.  Well, ok...if you don't, maybe you should.  Life has a way of getting busy.  Crazy is more like it.  Work takes over.  Schedules fill up.  Kids clamor for your attention.  If you're not careful, even good things like volunteering, serving, mentoring, and the general giving of your time to others can sometimes detract from areas of your life that deserve more of your focused pursuit.  And, as Giglio surmises, I think that's ultimately how you know what you worship: 

You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your loyalty.  At the end of that trail, you'll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what's of highest value to you.  On that throne is what you worship.

We're all in pursuit of something.  We're all searching for value...for something worthy of our time and ultimately, our worship.  There's got to be more to life, right?  I think we're ingrained with a desire to make our life worthwhile.  We want meaning.  And we're all trying to fill that void with something.  We pour our energies into those somethings.  But at the end of the day, are we really any further along?  Do we truly find fulfillment in those things?  Don't we still feel the need for more?  Don't we still fill a little empty?  That something is still missing...  

“He is the God who made the world and everything in it.”...“He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.”...“His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us.  For in him we live and move and exist.”

We were made for more than the insignificant somethings of this earth.  We're made to reflect God's glory.  To give Him honor.  To give Him priority in our lives.  We were made to seek God.  To find our fulfillment in Him.  To find new life through Him.  To worship Him.  He is the only one worthy of our worship.  Everything else falls so far short.  Nothing else quite measures up.  The amazing thing is (as Paul said in the verses above), God is not far from any one of us.  This is not an aimless, pointless, or endless pursuit.  God is seeking you.  He wants you.  He loves you and wants your love and attention.  He wants you to find what you're looking for in Him.  He wants you to find life in Him.  He wants you to have more...to have EVERYTHING...in Him.  He is the only one who can truly satisfy. 

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.