iPhone: Evidence We're Wired to Worship
Chris Gonzalez writes after reading two articles on the iPhone frenzy: "tell me human beings aren’t hard-wired to worship"
All of humanity, myself included, is constanty looking for something to stand in awe of. We gawk at amazing athletes, pay thousands of dollars to travel the globe to get a glimpse of something we've never seen before. There's a reason why Planet Earth is consistently the highest selling DVD on Amazon.com: We have been designed to worship. But the fact that I am drawn to so many of these earthly things that demand my attention, my delight, my worship should be a red light, an alarm screaming at me that I must run to God to find the Joy of joys, the Delight of all Delights from whom all good delights flow.
Maurice Roberts writes:
"Ecstasy and delight are essential to the believer’s soul and they promote sanctification. We were not meant to live without spiritual exhilaration, and the Christian who goes for a long time without the experience of heart-warming will soon find himself tempted to have his emotions satisfied from earthly things and not as he ought, from the Spirit of God. The soul is so constituted that it craves fulfillment from things outside itself and will embrace earthly joys for satisfaction when it cannot reach spiritual ones….The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ and savoring the felt comforts of a Savior’s presence. When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, our souls will go in silent search of other lovers…By the enjoyment of the love of Christ in the heart of a believer we mean an experience of the “love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us” (Romans 5:5)…Because the Lord has made Himself accessible to us in the means of grace, it is our duty and privilege to seek this experience from Him in these means till we are made the joyful partakers of it.”
Maurice Roberts
The Thought of God
pp. 57-58
Cited in Keeping the Heart, p. x
I meditated on this when I recently lead my church body in remembering Christ during the Lord's Supper. Check back tomorrow for that...
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