One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Dragons? Beasts?

Parts of Revelation read like a Game of Thrones episode.

I’ve never seen the show but that’s how I imagine it goes.

The biggest difference is that symbolic or literal, the Revelation account paints a frightening reality.

All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

We all worship something. A thing, a person, a habit, anything that we’ve placed in the way of our connection to the one living and true God, the very one who can save us from that barrier.

I’m an addict.

I’ve spent most of my adult life clearing garbage off my path that seeks to be an easy off-ramp. It’s a tiring, relentless task I take up daily for the promise of a day when I no longer need to.

This is worship.

What are your dragons and beasts that derail your journey along the way to the day God says to you, “Well done good and faithful servant.”

That, my friend, is your path of worship.