He preached about pursuing the presence of God, which included 3 'W's - Waiting, Word and Worship. In particular, i was taken when i heard the part on worship.
Imagine this scene. A little boy on a seaside vacation with his family. His dad is dozing off on a beach towel, to the sound of crashing waves. His mom is busy laying out the picnic things and perhaps putting together a simple sandwich for the boy and his sleeping dad. The boy is absorbed in what he is doing...shovelling sand from a hole he has made and dumping the sand in a heap next to him. His brows are furrowed in deep concentration on the task he has to complete. He is oblivious to the things around him in his busyness. After a bit, he puts his shovel aside and wipes the sweat from his face with his t-shirt. He looks up, towards the sea, and for the first time since he has started his task, he looks at the scenery around him. And as he gazes out to sea, at its vastness, and at the horizons which lay before him, he realizes for the first time...how tiny he really is...
If you were that boy...with the realization of how miniscule you really are in relation to what you saw at that point of time...that feeling, that realization, THAT is how WORSHIP starts...
It is when we realise that we are not quite the center of the world (in fact, quite far from that), that our lives are just like a grain of sand on the vast beach, can we begin to understand how vast, how great, how excellent, how wonderful our God is...
And this is how we can see things in the right perspective, from God's perspective, even when things around us don't make sense anymore, we can take comfort in the knowledge that God is sovereign and that things will all eventually make sense when we meet God in heaven. This is worship.
O Lord our God, how excellent Your name is
How excellent Your name in all the earth
Your glory fills the heavens beyond the farthest star
How excellent Your name in all the earth
When I think about the heavens
The moon and all the stars
I wonder what You ever saw in me
But You took me and You loved me
And You've given me a crown
And now I'll praise Your name eternally
O Lord our God, how excellent Your name is
How excellent Your name in all the earth
Your glory fills the heavens beyond the farthest star
How excellent Your name in all the earth
