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Saturday, October 15, 2011
"Worship is...what?!"
I joined a small group through a church that I started attending a several weeks ago. Our small group is studying the book by Tom Kraeuter called "Worship is...what?!" This week the chapter was discussing how 'worship is the response of man when he encounters either God or God's actions.' I read it this morning as I was waking up, so I didn't quite understand what God was trying to tell me. I decided I needed to read the chapter again before small group this afternoon. So I went for a hike up the mountain by my house and stopped at one of the quieter little resting areas. I started re-reading the chapter, trying to figure out what God is trying to tell me though it. After about 5 minutes of struggling, this Korean woman came over and gave me a slice of apple. So sweet! She was taking a rest from hiking with her husband. About 5 more minutes pass and I'm still struggling to understand what I was reading. Like I understood the stories about Elijah and Baal on Mt. Carmel and Jesus walking on water and how people saw this and their natural response was to worship Him. But it wasn't clicking yet. Then, the husband tried to asked me a few questions, was I a student, what country was I from etc. and then they offered me a chunk of cucumber. I continued to have a very broken discussion with my limited Korean conversation skills and they got up to continue hiking. The woman started taking out this piece of paper and I could tell her husband was saying something like 'don't do that' or 'why are you doing that' or something along those lines, but the woman didn't care. She came over to me and handed me a bible track, all in Korean of course, and read a few lines from it. I didn't understand what she was saying in Korean, but I understood her intentions and her heart. At that moment, all I could do was worship and praise Him. That was totally a God moment! And it took that tiny moment for everything to click about what I was reading. I feel as though God provided that encounter for me to experience the worship response that His supernatural actions have. It was a similar response, only on a smaller scale, to what I was reading about in the chapter. My goal for my life starting now is that worship wouldn't just be a response to specific moments, but an ongoing response.
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