Be Careful and Thoughtful About What You Worship

You probably have heard this: “you become what you eat.” I eat chicken, but it doesn’t make me a chicken. It is a way of saying your body will either be helped or hindered by your diet. “The phrase … got a new lease of life in the 1960s hippie era. The food of choice of the hippie champions of the ‘you are what you eat’ idea was macrobiotic whole-food and the phrase was adopted by them as a slogan for healthy eating.” – Phrase Finder

You Become What You Worship

Psalm 115 has an interesting proclamation. Verses 4-8 declare what happens to a worshipper. “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.” Psalm 115:4-8

Images Are Copycats

Image bearers look like what they image. I have some heavy brass bookends in my home office. They look like lions. When I see them I think of the real thing, the lion that is alive. They represent the real thing in my mind. That isn’t a problem. But I can become as cold as brass by worshipping the things of this world instead of the Creator of this world.

You Are An Image Bearer

In Romans 8:29 it says that God has a goal for our imaging. “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”

Think long and hard about this. “Our worship is either aimed at our ruin, or our worship is aimed at our restoration, but it is aimed in either case. We are becoming what we worship.” – Tony Reinke

The question is, “what do you worship?”

Five Minute Friday

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All scripture passages are from the English Standard Version except as otherwise noted.