In worship God gathers his people to himself as center. Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God.
Failure to worship God consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without God as our focus of worship, we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos.
If there is no center, there is no circumference. People who do not worship God are swept into a vast restlessness, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination.