It occurs to me another stumbling word is the notion of "worship".  Like my other article on "pray", its one most non-Christians pretend to not be doing because in their drifting language, its become narrowed in meaning to something that only happens inside religious settings they don't participate in or desire to.  My proposal is that we all do it and the language drift has had dire consequences for people being able to parse the warnings in the bible.  Words shift in meaning depending on our culture and you can distort a words effectiveness for communication to a people well before our dictionary ever changes.  For instance, the word "idiot" has gone through many mutations over the centuries– originally rooted from a word only used to describe people uninterested in politics.  I'm sure this could make a lot of old books "problematic" for the modern reader and just reinforce their prejudices on all eras of man not their own.

Almost all Christians do not fall for the false dichotomy arguments and language games heathens like to use that pretend to undermine the root of spiritual belief.    They misjudge where the "root" is of what notions they are trying to dispel, presume it to be intellectual, and only a minor discipline known as "apologetics" even seeks reaching them in the space they allow us to stand alongside them in the debate language styles and framing they prefer.  The similarity to "apology" in the word "apologetics" I find a very sweet kindness of coincidence to call the discipline intended mostly as a charity mission to assist lost intellectuals back into good graces with their God.   Even our language dictionaries virtue signal the humility which Jesus' church was built from, and the world's mob have yet to gain the Orwellian style mastery over the English dictionary their corrupted hearts secretly desire.    

There are several science and engineering disciplines I think that have "lost the plot" with God, but some are closer than others and their pursuit looks a lot like worship.  Cosmologists, physicists, and mathematicians in particular, I think are on a noble crusade to find God's first miracle either by grand unification theory, big bang, particle colliders or by looking at things so large, small, or distant as to be so completely irrelevant to modern life that the only possible explanation for their continued pursuit must be spiritual.  In their hearts, they know this truth but they continue to sacrifice and try to righteously deceive the unrighteous world into accommodating them through vague promises its all going to be worthwhile and will lead to a yet unnamed important insight that manifests in future technology we won't be able to live without.  

Basically, these noblemen of science are pleading with the world to put their faith in them and ignore Jesus.  I fear the world is only content with the status quo due to the recent centuries of works by very blessed men, but the time will come when it will demand more results than can be reasonably delivered by men and their crusades will be defunded or run empty of inspiration.  I hope not, because I am curious what we could find, but Jesus tells us of the ways of the world and it doesn't look promising for them.   I think even the heathens agree we must keep them enthusiastic and well funded, which is actually very funny and ironic, because the word "enthusiasm" in the English language is derived from Greek words meaning "full of God" or "motivated by God" – another one of the facts of the reality of our language that can't be protested away by the atheists now rampant in those exact fields of science.  

So what I would propose is to think on the similarity between a person's experience with worship as similar to the mathematician toiling to follow Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, biologist looking deeply at evolution, or a cosmologist scanning for insights about the big bang,   All involve a shared sacrifice of time with a fellowship of people to honor and seek out answers to something God built into our existence.  The joy these men at the top of their field have when they make a monumental discovery in their field is probably similar to that which some particularly blessed, but not uncommon people get every Sunday service.   The sort of euphoria being chased here God has not built into the universe for only the benefit of the most elite of their discipline to enjoy finding.  We all know how to rejoice being in the universe we find ourselves.  We all know how to worship and praise God.  Its almost as if we have been designed for it.  (we have)

Now that you know we're similar, know that there is a seeming subtle difference in what we worship but has cosmic importance according to Jesus.  One is God himself and the other is only God's creation.  According to 1 John 2:15:

"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world– the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life– is not of the Father but is of the world.  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever"

I know it seems a rather arbitrary distinction since a clever trick you can play on your partial atheist conditioned self when starting to grok the Bible is to replace where you see the word "God" with "Universe", but its obviously not the same since Jesus is pretty emphatic about it here.  How could so many of your environmentalist, scientific, global health, and political causes create such seeming contempt from Christians?  You can trace it to that line of scripture right there.  If you feel compelled to undermine Christian religion inspired politics, you best concentrate on trying to erase that verse from Christian's Bibles, which you'll find impossible until the end of time in the universe I live in.  That line of scripture will be baked into the "gut feel" sensibilities of Christian children even if they don't read the Bible for a few generations.

If you're just curious to understand why this is so important, I encourage you earnestly search your intuition and look for more clues in the Bible.  Its a process named "discernment" that heathens often confuse as "judgement" because its fading from their language and God is always flooding their emotional state with such strong cosmic vibes of impending judgement that they end up seeing it everywhere and attribute it as coming from everyone they hate.  If you only ever "trust your gut" on whats right and wrong, you'll remain only a partially conscious soul thats put all your faith of salvation on your parent's indoctrination from their inherited culture, which I'm pretty sure the Bible will tell you how that might not work out for you in the end.  

Anyway, you've got yourself a mystery to follow and I've got faith if you earnestly want to know the cultural reasons why you should worship God and not the world, the Holy Spirit will help it come to your imagination.  Or you can use Google, but its less fun that way and you're trusting a tool of the world to guide you on a path of cosmic truth, for which the stakes are way too high.  You really should not put your faith in anything except the written words of Jesus himself as recorded in a Bible you receive hand to hand from a friend you trust in your heart.  Theres a reason almost all of modern technology starting from the printing press is derived from a desire to spread this one book.