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Worship

 https://x.com/attorneyf_/status/2008259938486022496?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/attorneyf_/status/2008438542750368132?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Why does God even want worship? Isn’t that… needy? I was rewatching The Chosen weeks ago, the scene with the Samaritan woman and that question wouldn’t leave me alone. Jesus says, “The Father is seeking those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.” It hit me harder than usual. Almost made me teary. And then an intrusive thought slid in: Why does He care so much about worship? So I sat with it. And slowly, something started to untangle. We live in a world obsessed with creators and ownership. Artists sign their paintings. Musicians copyright their songs. Companies defend their patents. Architects protect their signature designs. Not because they’re insecure. Because authorship matters. We instinctively know that to erase an author’s name from their work is wrong, and to twist their creation beyond recognition is violation. That clicked for me. If flawed humans protect the integrity of what they make… how much more would the God who authored galaxies guard His? Reality itself is His masterpiece. Every law of physics, every spark of beauty, every heartbeat, signed, authored, claimed. So when Scripture calls God jealous, it’s not describing a fragile deity craving applause. It’s describing a Creator who refuses to let His signature be erased from what He made. Not insecurity, integrity. Not ego, essence. He is jealous for us, not of us. Because when creation forgets its Creator, everything breaks. Meaning unravels. Purpose distorts. Worship misfires. God’s “jealousy” isn’t about Him needing attention. It’s about Him refusing to let us live on lies. He knows that life only works when it aligns with Truth. And He is that Truth. So when Jesus says the Father is seeking worshipers, it’s not desperation. It’s love. It’s rescue. It’s the God who authored reality inviting us back into alignment with it. Divine jealousy isn’t proof of God’s weakness. It’s proof of His love. A love that protects. A love that refuses to hand us over to counterfeits. A love that will not let His creation forget who made it. The universe is a signed masterpiece. Erase the signature, and you erase meaning itself. God refuses to let that happen. That’s where I landed. And honestly? It made me worship more, not less."

" You’re right, God loses nothing. An infinite Being isn’t fragile, threatened, or desperate for validation. And that’s my point. If anything, the “risk” isn’t on His side. It’s on ours. The real issue isn’t that God needs worship, it’s that we do. The thing is, humans don’t stop worshipping when we stop worshipping God. We just redirect it, toward power, ego, money, pleasure, ideology, self. And whatever we worship shapes us. The Bible says it plainly: “We become like what we behold.” So the logical corollary is that divine “jealousy” isn’t God guarding His ego. It’s God guarding reality, meaning, and ultimately… us. If God truly is the source of life, beauty, truth, and being itself, then misdirected worship isn’t harmless at all, it’s dangerous misalignment with reality. And misalignment fractures us. So yes, He loses nothing if we ignore Him. But we lose everything. That’s why I think His jealousy isn’t about possession. It’s about love. Not God saying, “I need you to praise Me,” but God saying, “You were made for truth, don’t trade it for counterfeits.”

 

Two things in this piece struck me as interesting.  

 

The first is that humans are going to worship something.  To paraphrase Bob Dylan, "It may be the Devil or it may be The Lord", but humans are going to worship something.  We can worship YHWH, the one who created and loves us, or we can worship aspects of His fallen creation.  Why not worship the one who is Truth, as opposed to that which is not.

 The second is that if humans are so determined to control the things they create, why would YHWH also not want to receive acknowledgement for His creation.  

 YHWH created us to have life and to have life to the fullest, yet we so often ignore the fullness of life in YHWH and run after a poorly fashioned counterfeit.  

 

Ding Dong

 Reports are coming out this morning that Tim Walz is dropping out of his run for a third term as governor.  Shockingly enough, it appears that the blame is falling on everyone else but him and that the rampant, multi billion dollar frauds that happened on his watch have nothing to do with his withdrawal.  I can't wait to see who will become the DFL candidate now.