Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Rev. 4:11)
Worship is the act of ascribing worth to a thing or person. It is cogent and logical therefore to expect the worshipper to (worship) ascribe worthy squarely by his/her attributive sense of value of the object of worship. It is the worshipper’s perceived value that motivates his/her worship (ascribed worth) of the object. This is noteworthy. J
It is (therefore) not unexpected that inappropriate worth may be ascribed by the worshipper in an instance; warranted by his/her poor value judgement, insufficient or exaggerated worth may inadvertently be ascribed. This point is well elucidated by the sale option of Auction.
Auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder (Wikipedia). It is an unwary manner of determining the worth, price or value of an item by the estimate or imagined value of the Public. During the Auction process, bidders continue to ascribe worth to the item motivated by their respective perceived value of the item. It is their perceived value that actually informs the price each is prepared to pay.
At the conclusion of the Auction, the highest bidder, i.e. the person that ascribed the highest worth to the item becomes its owner; he/she sees or perceives the most value in the item than all others and he is convinced that putting the highest bid price on the item is WORTH it. This in essence is the basis that differentiates every worshipper and item of worship.
Imagine this; “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.” (Psalm 115:4-8)
The point here is, some people see value in idols that “…have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat”. By the grace of God, having received the Light of the Gospel, one can now see how impoverished a sense of value as this is. Clearly the idol is less intelligent than his worshipper who by the way is its owner. This does not add up. Do not serve idols. It is pernicious, insidious and devious. Please don’t do it. We serve The Lord Christ. (Col. 3:12)
To ascribe appropriate and sufficient worth to the Lord (in our act of worship) it is important that we gain good and accurate sense of value the Lord brings into our lives and living to offer fitting adoration of Him. Consider what the twenty and four elders in Heaven observed and did; “The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Let us seek and know the Lord that we may worship Him sufficiently.