Worship: Why They Act Like Idiots

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.—Revelation 4:11

Without worship we go about miserable; that's why we have all the troubles we have. You wonder why young people act like such idiots. Some young people have a lot of energy and don't know what to do with it, so they go out and act like idiots; and that's why gangsters and Communists and sinners of all kinds do what they do. They are endowed by God Almighty with brilliant intelligence and an amazing store of energy, and because they don't know what to do with it they do the wrong thing. That's why I'm not angry with people when I see them go off the deep end, because I know that they have fallen from their first estate along with Adam's brood and all of us together. They haven't been redeemed and so they have energy they don't know what to do with; they have capacity they don't know how to use. They have skills and don't know where to put them, and so they go wild and police have to arrest 16-year-olds and put them in jail. If they had been taught that they came into the world in the first place to worship God and to enjoy Him forever and that when they fell Jesus Christ came to redeem them, to make worshipers out of them, they could by the Holy Ghost and the washing of the blood be made into worshiping saints and things would be so different. Worship: The Missing Jewel, 8-9.

"Lord, I pray especially for young people today. In this post-modern age there is so little emphasis on this eternal truth. Reveal Yourself this morning to some who really need to see You and need to see the purpose for which they came into the world. Amen."