The simplicity of worship

I read something this morning; You have all probably read this verse a million times before;

(context, Matt 4):When the devil was tempting Jesus, he told Jesus to just ‘get down on his knees and worship him and in return he would give Jesus all of earth’s kingdoms’, Jesus replied very strongly, quoting Deuteronomy:

“Worship the Lord your God, and only Him. Serve Him with absolute single-heartedness” (MESSAGE paraphrase, Matt 4:10b)

I just love the simplicity in this – there are ‘earthly kingdoms’, so to speak tempting us and distracting us everyday of our lives (The devil wants nothing more than to pull us off-course), so our ‘calling’ is simple…Worship God alone.

That’s what God asks of us and as worship leaders, we probably get just as distracted, if not more, than anyone…so, let’s pray for each other (our musicians, our friends, our worship leaders, our Pastors, our families, etc.). Let’s pray that we would be this kind of worshiper. That God would be the focus of our lives every day and that we would not be distracted from our true call and purpose; That we would be people who lead others to God, as we lead in worship, as a ‘band’ (worship teams, etc) and as individuals in our everyday lives.