I worshipped self, I worshipped money, I worshipped worldly acclaim, success, and status. I worshipped validation and the pursuit of a standard of excellence which could never be met.
Nobody ever told me, well I guess I never clocked it, that praise was a gateway, that worship will take you IN to something and you will become it,
always.
But to be honest if I HAD have heard that? I would have loved it, worshipped at the feet of THAT idea and I suppose if we’re honest,
I built up and actively fed on the idea that I could become whatever I chose to, decided to, looked to, that not only could I become it but I could be a walking reflection magnet and outpouring of it as well.
I thought I was so clever.
I thought I, alongside a few select of my peers and clients, had figured this out myself.
I thought I had a special and unique talent, an ability to put my mind heart and every bit of my soul so effectively to something that I could just decide to embody it and then I DID.
OH,
how good it is that the self-proclaimed mighty fall.
Don’t you think?!
See this stuff works on simple spiritual law.
You know law.
Let’s take gravity.
If I drop a ball off the roof, I don’t have to pray that it’ll hit the ground in Jesus Name.
It’s law.
It will.
Here’s a spiritual law –
You will become what you worship.
Here’s the catch –
You were made to worship.
Here’s the throw away the key bit –
You cannot NOT worship.
Humans, we praise. We lift up. We exalt. We laud. And as we do this, we go deeper and deeper into the depths of whatever it is we are praising, ultimately –
becoming it.
And in doing so,
we magnify it. We reflect it to others. We become an ever greater magnet for more of it. And we become an outpouring of it.
It’s simple math.
And for a gal who was so very lost, so lost she thought she had found everything she never knew how to be or feel good enough for, everything that surely she was put here to pursue, it was VERY attractive math.
Heady stuff.
I figured out that the more I looked at money … success … acclaim … and a decision and choice to unapologetically be the all the way extra version of me; worldly sprinkles all OVER the place on top of it … the more I not only received, but the more it truly did become an overflow of and continuum of who I was.
I became … success.
Worldly version.
If you’ve done similar … or any version of this … you know what I’m getting to though.
The bit they don’t tell you in boss babe school.
Which is the emptiness.
Vastness of nothingness.
Complete lack of actual groundedness.
And grab bag you can’t EVER put down of demons that is now clinging on to every bit of you because it just so happened to come with.
Put a multi-8-figure queen bow on it and call it amazing, line up every pretty shoe and toy and gated room you now get to enter into and that don’t change what it is:
You worshipped vanity, emptiness, nothingness.
And you became it.
Maybe you think this is too harsh. Towards myself or others. Or perhaps you just think oh, well, poor Kat. I guess SHE never really actually figured out her true purpose work after all! Because if she was really in alignment … > insert smuggery here, or, okay then, maybe curiosity < … she would never refer to who she was, all she built, in this way.
Maybe right now as you read you think aha, well, but “ME, I’m TRULY aligned. I’m doing my soul work. I love it here!”
lil problem.
When I say we were made to worship. When I saw we can’t NOT worship. When I say we ARE worshipping whether or not we know it. And when I say we BECOME what we worship,
a) I’m not saying it, that’s God’s word; it’s fact
b) You were made to worship, reflect, and become, the pure, blessed, walking, talking, Holy Spirit fire breathing, magnification and outpouring of JESUS
And the thing is …
Perhaps you’ve noticed?
You just won’t be filled til you do.
You can travel the seas, invest with all the peoples, build and do and be ALL that the world has to offer –
and something will be missing.
Emptiness will lurk beneath it all.
You can keep yourself busy if you like.
Think you are running ahead of it if you like.
Convince yourself YOU are different if you like.
But that tick tick tick within you, it’s not gonna go away.
Eternity is planted ALL the way into you.
And I just hope that the tick tick tick BOOM bit happens while you’re here on earth, and not when you depart this one and realise what comes next.
Ya know?
And then there is this.
For those who pursue right identity.
Alignment.
Truest self.
Being and creating from who you were made to be.
GORG –
You were made to reflect Jesus.
You were born to glorify God.
The work, creative outpouring, words, voice, you are to be and pour forth, is meant to be out of the abundance of Him in and all the way through you.
You were made in the likeness of God!
So if you want to be fully you …
And you become what you worship …
And the missing and infinitely greater piece of YOU which you need to fall into in order to actually BE you is God …
And praising, worshipping, living in His presence reflects Him, causing you to ever further become the image of Him …
Doesn’t it make sense to put down the pretty things with demons dangling off ’em?
You can’t ignore the twisted destruction and death behind it forever.
Worship changes you.
Until you become.
I thought I could escape this, because my intentions and desire for right purpose were so pure. PURE IN THE WORLD IS NOT A THING. It is also a direct gateway to satanic influence, often via the doorway of pursuing so called higher / best self.
You cannot escape it either.
Without Christ we are ALL doomed.
Beyond this earth,
but also here.
Worship.
The.
Lord.
Your praise is a gateway.
His presence is on the other side.
And where the presence of the Lord is?
BLESSINGS SURROUND.
That’s all.
That’s all.
THAT IS ALL.
Now don’t forget –
Life is Now. Press Play.
Kat
Prayer point: Lord show me what I am worshipping! Reveal hidden idolotry, and cause me to in all ways reflect YOU!
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PPS
I looked up and refreshed on a ton of scripture before this post.
Here it is, if you’d like to peruse x
(In no special order!)
Genesis 1:26
Psalm 115:8
Psalm 135:18
John 8:44
Luke 6:45
Hebrews 13:15
Psalm 56:4
Psalm 22:3
Psalm 8:2
Colossians 2:7
Psalm 100:4
Ezekiel 34:26
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