First Methodist Church of Lake City

``God doesn't need your worship. The question was, god doesn't need my worship. No. He doesn't. You do. You need your worship. See, god gave you this wonderful thing and we think that we're coming to do it for god as though it somehow benefits god and god knows that it's benefiting us. The same way when you have your kids do chores when they're little. I would have the kids clean up the kitchen, and then you know what I had to do? Go clean up the kitchen. Right? So why did I have them do it? It's just gonna take me twice as long to get it done right, and it's never gonna be exactly the way I want it. And we find sometimes there'll be utensils in the cereal bowl cabinet because they'll just put stuff anyway. So why did I subject myself to this ark? Because it's doing a work in them. Because it's training them for how to run their household when they get old. In the same way, when we come to worship God, God is doing a work in us. Because here's the principle of worship. We become like what we worship.