Genesis 4 reveals the story of Cain and Abel.  What I find most interesting from the story is found in verse 2.  “Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.  But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.”

Where did that come from?  Did God hand Adam and Eve a handbook on Worship etiquette when He escorted them out of the garden?  I don’t find any scriptures that reveal any communication between God and Adam and Eve concerning bringing offerings and placing them before God.  I do find many scriptures, however, that reveal many things about the act of worship to God.  Let’s never forget how God created us.  Genesis 1:26- ” Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”   We were created in God’s image.  We came into being with “pre-installed” parts.  One of the most important “parts” that God put within us is the ”instinct” to worship.  Acts 17:26-27 says, “From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.  God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”  The fact of the matter is that we were created by God to worship.  We were created to be in relationship with Him.  All mankind comes into this world with the “pre-installed” instinct to worship. It is absolutely amazing to read about different civilizations being discovered in our world today that have never been exposed to any outside influence.  Usually they are discovered deep in the jungles of some far off place completely secluded from the modern world and all its thinking and systems.  What is most amazing is that this group of people have survived without the modern technology that we enjoy.  They have survived and literally thrived without television or radio or fast food places.  And what is completely shocking is that within the group there is always some idea of a god that they serve.  Somehow they have come up with an idea that there is a “higher being” and that ”higher being” is to be worshipped.  Granted, the “higher being” that they have established might not correspond very well with who we know  the only true God to be, but the truth remains, they were worshipping a god. There was  no outside influence concerning religion or church,  no outside influence concerning creation or a creator,  yet somewhere along the way, they established a system of worship to a god.    Where did that come from?  It came from God.  It is how we are ALL created- In the image of God.  We have a natural “instinct” to worship.  Now whether man decides to use that instinct to worship the one and only true God is entirely their choice.  Many choose to use that instinct to worship other things, usually themselves.  Still others use that instinct to worship a god or gods that they have created.  Regardless, we all have this God-given instinct to worship.  The only challenge remains in how we choose to respond to that instinct.  Do we worship the God who created us with that instinct?  Or do we reject Him and choose to worship someone or something else?  The conclusion remains the same.  We choose.  The truth also remains the same.  There is only one true God and creator of all mankind and He has created all mankind to be in relationship with Him.