Gospel Guidebook: Getting and Keeping It Right 
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Worship of God is Only Natural
by Robert P. TerryPublished March 22, 2026
That God demands worship should not be considered something strange or unnatural. For starters, He is in a position to demand it, and we, as completely dependent on Him for our every breath, must naturally give it even if He didn't demand it. Moreover, if creatures did not have the common goal of worshiping God as their ultimate duty, the universe itself would plunge into chaos, because creatures would be divided amongst themselves, each making himself a god or a worshiper of some arbitrary god, and the whole order of the universe would be lost. However, with the ultimate duty and goal of the creature to worship the Creator, the universal order is preserved, and creatures in their pursuit of their ultimate duty, simultaneous fulfill lesser duties, such as love for one another, as they work with each and help each and sacrifice for each other in order that every creature with no exception attains to and fulfills its ultimate duty. Not only is the universal order preserved, but utopia is obtained as a natural consequence. And this unity among creatures in their common goal is the oneness that Jesus speaks of in John 17, namely that they might be one as He and the Father are one.
And this is also the reason why justification must have been accomplished by the Son of God and why faith can be nothing more than plain belief in the propositions of the Gospel. In this way, all the elect have a common salvation and common hope and a common life.
And of course God must pursue His own glory as His ultimate goal and utmost priority; otherwise, He Himself would become an idolator, worshiping the works of His own hands, namely the creatures that He made. Therefore, both God and His creatures have the common goal of glorifying God.