The opposite of worship is selfish ambition. God calls us to respond to him in worship. Worship is the offering of our whole selves back to God (Romans 12:1). Worship is an act of surrender: we lay aside our independence and autonomy and entrust our lives to God. Worship is us putting aside all our personal goals and agendas and taking up God’s agenda and his purpose for our lives. God has a better life for you. It is the life you were made to live; the life in which all your potential can be realised. Too many people miss out on this and end up squandering their lives away in complete futility. They are like seeds that never sprout. Selfish ambition robs us of true life. If you want God to raise you up to true life, says Paul, then you must do what Christ did. You must be willing to die. You must allow your self-fabricated identity to perish, and with it all your selfish goals and agendas. You must forsake the false life to take up the new. When you become obedient to this death then God will raise you up to a higher place where the view is better and where the atmosphere is such that every seed of potential in you will crack open, bud, grow and be fruitful. Then, when people meet you they will not meet some false identity that you project. Instead, they will meet a child of God, and in the child of God they will also see Jesus.
Commit your life to God again today.
Read Philippians 2:1-11
