Songs for the Road Part Four: Everybody Worships

Everybody Worships

Psalm 134 ESV

Outline

Worship is a destination, but it is also a beginning.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship…is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

If you worship money and things, then you will never have enough or feel you have enough. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. Worship power–you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart–you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. 

The insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default settings. – David Foster Wallace

• David Foster Wallace

Psalm 134 ESV

v.1

• 1 Peter 2.4-5: all are priests

“To bless God is to recount the greatness and the grandeur of his person and attributes; it’s to thank him for who he is and for all that he has done for us.” Rhett Dodson.

• Exodus 34.6-7

v.2

• Psalm 141.2

Lift clean hands in devotion

Lift open hands in surrender

Lift empty hands to receive

Lift ready hands to minister

Lift weak hands in dependence

• B. Charles, Jr.

v.3

• “You” is singular

• Psalm 8.3-4: the perspective we need

Who or what has captivated your heart and your longings? Who has your love and imagination?

• Psalm 84.2