Crowds flock to the stadium – the “football temple”. The teams sit in the dressing rooms and put on their jerseys in the uniform colors. Then finally! – The teams run in onto the “sacred turf“while the whole stadium rises to its feet and raises its fan scarf to the sky. Everyone sings the anthem fervently – goosebumps.

Sometimes these rituals at a football match remind me of a church service, a kind of substitute religion. People seem to long to be part of something bigger. He wants to identify with something that gives him meaning. As if our heart knows something that remains hidden from our earthly eyes.

So we humans tend to give created things a divine status. Our life, with all our resources, is based on what we have made our highest. So many things can become a kind of religion for us.

Worshipping God means giving him the highest place in our lives. To give it the place it deserves. When God is the axis around which our lives revolve, order, peace and joy come into our hearts.

What’s your highest?

Suitable Bible text: Ecclesiastes 3:11-14