Why Do We Need To Worship God?

This is a question many people are asking themselves and others. Why do we need to worship God? Is God some kind of low esteem that He requires worship from people? Is God on some cosmic egoistic trip that He gets mad if we don’t worship Him? The answer is NO. God is totally fine trillions and gazillions of years even before He created the earth and the whole universe, and every living thing including you and me. In fact, God doesn’t need us – He is complete in Himself. He can exist even without humanity, from eternity to eternity. God had already set-up His worship teams of angels long before we were created. A third of them rebelled because of pride and became fallen angels – the primary worship leader then became Lucifer or Satan (Isaiah 14:12).

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” (Gen 1:31). When God created the earth and everything in it, it was perfect. And in itself, it reflects the marvelous wonder of God’s power and majesty. The creation itself brings praise and glory to God. Not a single person on earth who could have seen the beauty of creation would not have marveled nor have been filled with awe. Jesus said in Luke 19:40 that if people would be silent and not worship, the stones and rocks could not just wait to burst out in praise and adoration to its Creator! Never mind the trees, the flowers, the birds, the wind, and the seasons, the moon, and the stars – they are worshiping God everyday, and you could not just ignore them.

Now, the Lord created man and woman in His own image (Gen 1:27). “For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” says Paul in Ephesians 2:9. We too are God’s creation, in fact the most important of all God’s creation, and we must reflect God’s glory in our lives and bound to do good works. But we cannot do it because sin separated us from God – and all have sinned without exception (Rom 3:23). Yet because of God’s love for us, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins and pay all our sin at full price. And that is the greatest gift we can have from God – only if we believe to be so and accept it by faith (Eph 2:8).

Having that gift of salvation alone is the most important reason why we should give thanks and worship to God the Father, who reconciled us back to Him through the Lord Jesus Christ. Expressing our worship and adoration to the God of our salvation here on earth is the best practice we can do. It is a glimpse of what’s going on now in heaven where the angels and saints are worshiping God at all times. If the king of rock, king of pop, king of jazz, and whatever king of music have died and did not waver to sing and entertain people and audiences and themselves – so much more the saints and angels of the Lord God Almighty will not waver to sing praise and worship to the King of kings and Lord of lords! It wouldn’t be boring as you think.