Even people who lived in primitive civilizations and had no knowledge of the Bible created their own gods because they felt a need to worship.

Some worshiped the sun and moon, and some made gods out of wood and stone but regardless of the method, it is a fact that everyone has and will worship something!

Most people here in our country don’t worship idols made of wood or stone but idolatry is still a problem in America.

People worship things like money, or their jobs or something they own, or their family.

But a long time ago on Mount Sinai, God wrote on the tables of stone the immortal words: “Thou shalt have NO other gods before ME” (Exodus 20:3).

Well, how do we know if something has become an idol to us?

If there is something that we place ahead of the Lord Jesus Christ, then that thing or that person has become our god.

In Matthew 4:10 we find Jesus being tempted of the devil in the wilderness:

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.

So we know that we are to worship the Lord but when should we worship Him?

Do we just do it in church on Sundays and then push Him aside the rest of the week?

Do we just do it in church when we’re with everyone else and that’s all that’s required of us?

I believe that we should get to a place where we are LIVING in a state of continuous worship to God.

That all day long we are in a state of worship.

Does that mean that we are actually praying every minute we’re awake?

Does it mean we walk around on the job or at Walmart with our hands raised all of the time?

No, but it means that worship should be such a part of us that it is constantly going on, even when we’re not expressing it out loud.

When a song comes into your mind, it’s a godly song.

When you’re going about your day, your mind is continuously coming around to something that has to do with God;

it can be a Scripture that pops in your head, it can be about something you heard in church, it can be anything – just something that revolves around the Lord.

Psalm 149:4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people: He will beautify the meek with salvation.

If we need a reason to sing, if we need a reason to worship Him, if we need a reason to get excited, there it is:

God takes pleasure in us!

God takes pleasure in you and me.

This infinite, eternal God who holds the entire universe in His hand, LOVES us and whenever we begin to worship Him, He fixates His attention on us

and nothing pleases Him more than when we begin to praise Him with everything that’s in us.

The more we worship Him, the more He responds to our worship

and if it takes our excitement and our enthusiasm in worship to please Him

then we ought to praise Him to the best of our abilities!

There ought to be a passionate, emotional AND physical response in our worship

because the Lord loves us and He takes pleasure in us!