I love this story!
Robert Kennedy, an American missionary to South America, once visited the dense jungle of the Amazon. There he talked with a Brazilian Indian who had recently come to know Christ. Working through a translator, the communication was strained, so the salvation of this newly converted Indian was unknown to Kennedy. He innocently asked the native Brazilian, “What do you most like to do?” He expected to receive a generic answer such as “hunting with bows and arrows” or “canoeing”. But to his amazement, the Indian answered, “Being occupied with God.” Kennedy was stunned with the response. He said, “Ask him again. Something must be lost in the translation.” But the Indian gave the same answer. The constant preoccupation of this new believer was, quite simply, God. –Steve Lawson, Psalm 76-150, Holman Old Testament Commentary, p. 146.
What a great illustration of worship this man is to us of the heart of worship: being occupied with God. That’s what a worshipper is: one’s whose life is occupied with the grandeur and goodness of God!
Worship is all that I am responding to all that God is!
What a challenge today to us all: be occupied with God.
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