What is will worship? It is the
constant effort of man to accomplish his own will, whether for good or for bad.
It is an insidious trick of the enemy to keep God’s people under bondage to
their own set of do’s and don’ts, to bring to them self pride for successfully
performing their will, and self condemnation for failure. The gratification
from success brings pride of accomplishment which leads to worship of one’s own
will. When the person sets for himself standards too high for him to maintain,
he excuses himself by confessing his “sin”, and going on to the next failure as
he trusts in the blood of Christ for his cleansing. He never comes to
realization that these laws he makes for himself are the same laws that were
defeating him before he was saved.
Before he was saved he knew he had to change his life, but could not.
After God changed his life he never come to realize that he was free from the
law of do’s and don’ts, his sin forgiven, and made a new creation in Christ, a
child of the King.
As
ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished
in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are
complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath
raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to
us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and
powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat,
or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let
no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all
the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ
from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye
subject to ordinances, (Touch not;
taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the
commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in
will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to
the satisfying of the flesh. (Colossians 2:6-23 AV)