A lot of people believe that by definition, if we worship, it thus follows that what we worship is going to be something spiritual and soulful. While this may be true in a technical sense, it isn’t true in a whole sense, for even those who are completely agnostic or atheistic worship something, and what people worship has everything to do with what they are most involved with, day by day. In other words, for example, if it is all about making a good income, and everything else in life is secondary to that, then what that individual is worshipping is money. If, for instance, someone is quite ambitious for a powerful position within a corporation, politics, or the society that they are a member of, then what they worship is power. If someone, for example, is determined to do what they can do to help make their community a better place, by volunteering, by organizing, and by helping out where help is needed, then they are worshipping, serving for the greater good. Each of us worships something, even those who are apathetic, who simply thereby worship lethargy or sloth.
Indeed, the best way to figure out what we worship is to look upon what we focus our highest attention to, each and every day, and while there are plenty of people that focus their attention on a variety of things, depending upon what is of most importance or concern, it typically isn’t going to be difficult to figure out, what they, in essence, are mainly worshipping, because it is that which they have prioritize the most often in their life, of which, their attention is drawn to that again and again, which is going to represent front and center of what they worship.
The next question that we need to get an answer to, therefore, is whether or not, we are satisfied with the decision that we have made in what we worship, for perhaps we haven’t ever taken the time to really contemplate and to focus upon such, but simply get done what we get done, and don’t think into the matter, very deeply. But this is the type of serious question that deserves a serious answer, and if we can’t figure out what the answer is, then we ought to ask others who know us well, in order to have them, weigh in, because we need to know, and in that knowing, this may make a difference in whether we continue upon the path that we are on, or change direction.
After all, as it has been said, an unexamined life is not worth living, which shouldn’t be taken literally, but instead should be seen as a “wake-up” call that we need to take the time to know ourselves in a way and manner, that it is clearcut to us, as to what we worship, and if what we worship is worthwhile, to continue the course, and if it is not, then to have the strength of character to change what needs to be changed, so that our individual worshipping reflects something of substance, instead.