We are all well aware of the "bad" things we can worship, we hear about these almost every week whether it be sunday morning, youth group, or bible study. The "bad" things of course the usual sex, drugs, rock and roll. But what about things that are good in our eyes? Like food, we worship that and we become gluttons. Or our friends, we worship them and then when they let us down it only breaks our hearts more. And what about worship? Is it possible to worship worship? I would argue yes. We worship worship when we think we are the only ones that do it right. We think our worship is the most "spirit lead" you can find. It becomes our only connection to God, if we go week to week and the one night of worship is the only thing that connects us to God then we are probably on the road to worshipping worship.
This may seem nit picky because it is so hard to determine what the motivations of ones heart is but that is the very reason it is so important, it is the motivation of our hearts we are dealing with here. What is so scary about our hearts coming from the wrong place of motivation as we go to worship is that if we are worshiping worship then we are just worshiping ourselves. We are worshiping what we can bring to God and thus worshiping our works. When are works are worth nothing, we cannot worship our way to the Lord loving us. He loves us if we never utter a song of praise. We love the hope the book of Isaiah gives us for when Christ comes back but we easily forget what the author says near the end of the book, "all our righteous acts are like filthy rags." (Isaiah 64:6)
So be critical of your heart, scripture says "the heart is deceitful above all things" (Jer. 17:9) aswell as "the wellspring of life." Ps. 4:23) It would appear that the heart is a tricky thing and knowing the motivation of our heart is paramount. Don't take your heart lightly, it's a part of you!
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