John 4:23 - Indeed, the time is coming, and it is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for people like that to worship him.
We are created to worship God. We are created to be fully engulfed in God’s love for us. The discovery of that love is the foundation of worship and a meaningful life. When we discover His love for us we will respond with rich praise and thanksgiving for who God is. Too may people are distracted by life and never seek to truly know and love God. Many fail to understand that the true significance of life is to place God at the center. Money, work, ambition, pleasures, and things cannot love us back. The things we desire and love most cannot give meaning, virtue, hope, lasting joy, or purpose to our lives. We love the temporal things that have little meaning and are passing away. We must learn to love the things that are eternal even more. The world is suffering because it has failed to worship God’s character, which reveals a love that gives us a standard to live by. If we live, loving as God loves, evil would be eradicated. All that is good in life comes from God.
Our neglect of worship for God is like a man who builds a beautiful house for his wife and she falls in love with the house and decorating it more than her husband. We fail to love and appreciate God who made us and gave us all things pertaining to life. We take for granted that we have been born, have life, exist, make choices, and can choose our destiny. All this is a gift from God. In essence we have become idolators replacing a deep intimate love and friendship with God with our natural life. Instead of living life with Him we live it without him treating him as a stranger and in some cases as an interloper.
God should be our hero – the person we want to be like and most emulate. We should want to live like God lives, holy, joyful, victorious, meaningful, truthful, loving, hopeful, eternally minded, and purposeful. We need to admire His attributes, character, and love. God is so misrepresented that He is ignored or despised. If you saw the goodness of God and understood His ultimate purpose for you, you would fall in love with Him. God’s plan is for us to spend eternity with him, reveling in His love and enjoying His creation with Him. God desires a passionate love as real and as powerful as any we can experience in this world. We are so enamored with all things of the earth that we fail to see the supremacy of a heavenly life and a spiritual love.
A recent survey asked people if they believed in God. 90-percent of those people said yes. They then were asked, how many make God an important part of their lives. Only 12 percent answered in the affirmative. If we make God a stranger while living in His earthly home we will not be invited to His heavenly one.