If an angel appeared to you right now in his full glory, what would you do? Seeing someone so magnificent, someone who comes right from the presence of God, would so overwhelm us that we would probably worship him, but we should not. When John saw and heard the fascinating images and sounds that we see and hear in the Book of Revelation, he worshiped the angel who showed him those things,

Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God” (Revelation 22.8–9).

As hard we might find it to be, angels are our fellow-servants. Why then worship them? God is our only object of worship. Yet, there was John in his nineties, and after all the teaching and preaching he had done, he still worshiped the angel. We need to understand how powerful the influences are that want to make us worship something other than God. Focus on Him, and you shall always worship Him alone.