Are you jealous?

Over the last few months of training in Atlanta and especially during this last week God has really challenged my devotion to Him.  While visiting different places of worship including a hindu temple, buddhist temple, and mosque the reality of worship that goes on around us and all over the world really hit me.  The question I have been asking is, "Am I truly jealous for God to get the worship He deserves and do my actions show it?"  Not only should we be interested in worshipping Him, but we should crave others to worship the King and perfect Creator of the universe.  Shouldn't we be hungry for our Savior to get the respect and honor and reverence He deserves?   Piper says it well, "Missions exists because worship doesn't."  We were made to worship.  All creation was made to worship.  The problem is that many times worship can be directed at many things apart from God, called idols.  To name a few, we worship money, comfort, family, security, education, sports and movie stars, entertainment, food, and even ourselves. Luke 19 tells us that if we fail to worship God, the very rocks will cry out.  

Isaiah 45 is one of the most powerful passages ever written and displays the reality of who God is!

⁵ I am the LORD, and there is no other;
   apart from me there is no God. 
I will strengthen you,
   though you have not acknowledged me,
⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
   to the place of its setting
people may know there is none besides me.
   I am the LORD, and there is no other.
⁷ I form the light and create darkness,
   I bring prosperity and create disaster;
   I, the LORD, do all these things.

¹⁶ All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;
   they will go off into disgrace together.
¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by the LORD
   with an everlasting salvation;
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,
   to ages everlasting.

 ²⁰ “Gather together and come;
   assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,
   who pray to gods that cannot save.
²¹ Declare what is to be, present it—
   let them take counsel together. 

²³ By myself I have sworn,
   my mouth has uttered in all integrity
   a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow;
   by me every tongue will swear.
²⁴ They will say of me, ‘In the LORD alone
   are deliverance and strength.’”
All who have raged against him
   will come to him and be put to shame. 

So, are you jealous???