A Worship Issue

“No one can serve two masters.” —Matthew 6:24

We cannot be servants of God while at the same time bowing and scraping to the demands of some other substance or influence. We’re either slaves to ourselves, our sin, Satan, or we’re slaves to our loving God.

Above and underneath it all, when we become dependent on a substance or activity, we’re yielding our worship to it. We’re offering it the firstfruits of our time, love, and energy. We’re saying through our actions that we choose sin’s rule over us rather than our loving heavenly Father’s.

So, we more accurately describe our addictions when we think of them as what they truly are: idolatry. They reflect our hearts’ inclination to vacillate in allegiances, voluntarily kneeling before other gods that can do nothing for us, dissatisfied with the one true God to whom we owe our lives.

That’s the exact opposite of what we’re called to be as Christ-followers. Our mission and privilege is to yield ourselves fully in service of Jesus. To turn from our idolatrous habits and experience the joy, freedom, and pure, sweet worship that flow from being wholly His.

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©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Scripture taken from The CSB