Crowds of people stream into the stadium – the ‘football temple’. The teams sit in the dressing rooms and put on their jerseys in the uniform colours. Then finally! – The teams run onto the ‘holy 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 football match rituals remind me of a church service, a kind of substitute religion. People seem to long to be part of something bigger. We want to identify with something that gives us meaning. As if our hearts know something that remains hidden from our earthly eyes.

So we humans tend to give created things a divine status. Our lives, with all our resources, are orientated towards what we have made our highest. In this way, many things can become a kind of religion for us.

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

What is your highest?

Applicable Bible text: Prediger 3,11-14