After reading this blog many of you will think I have totally lost my mind, to have such thoughts in church, yes you heard me correctly. I am sure I am not alone in my thinking. Contrary to popular belief I haven't lost a thing, I have gained. Follow along with me. You see, on Sunday while sitting in church I was thinking "how boring" this service was. I was trying to sing, but barely. I was trying to clap along, but barely. I somberly threw a couple of dollars in the benevolent offering tray. I thought, Pastor was not here, this is not my favorite choir, the praise team was not singing, our regular drummer was not here and I am just not feeling this service. Thoughts came across that I could be doing laundry or even at the movies ANYWHERE but here. I thought of 100 reasons I could just get up, excuse myself, and exit the church just as other people were actually doing. I thought service is light I could always do communion next month what the heck, I just wanted to leave. Then a scripture hit me like a ton of bricks "Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens" Psalm 148:13.
I then I heard a voice saying "this ain't about you!" I thought to myself what , this ain't about me? I know it's not about me, but I am bored. Then I said....."Oh My God" Who do I think I am to come into the house of the Lord and say anything is boring? It's all about God and he is not boring! I came here to praise him, to worship him, to let him do a new thing in me. I have a lot of nerves to sit here being ungrateful and selfish. God saved me from spinal cancer, allowed me to walk into the church without falling and here I am being selfish! After just this morning, I asked God to bless me and enlarge my territory and he was kind enough to give me with whole pew to myself! (side humor). Any who..?
I begin to pray "God open my eyes and my heart right now, in the name of your son Jesus so that I may see or hear something new that I have never seen before".
Wouldn't you know that God decided to teach me something at that very moment. Our guest Pastor begin his sermon on "Dry Bones." I just started crying. The scripture reference was Ezekiel 37:3-6 And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answered, "O Lord God, You know." Again He said to me "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, "O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!" Thus says the Lord God to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord." WOW!
If I received nothing from the whole message, this was it. How God could take me at that moment and let me know that it is he alone who gives me breath, and flesh over my dry bones that I may praise and worship him. So when you are feeling that it is about you, know it is not about you it is always about God. Know that the enemy has no control over you unless you give it to him. See had I left, the word would have been snatched away. The people who did leave, they missed a powerful message that could have given them something they needed.
Make room for the word of God. It is when we get so caught up in ourselves that we forget God is the one in control. So what if things aren't going your way, pray. So what you are bored, pray. Pray, and then pray again and watch how God turns the situation around. I'm telling you when I left I was so fired up and renewed I just couldn't do anything but smile. I am so glad that I made room for my blessing and still had time to go out for dinner and to the movies. Isn't God good!
I then I heard a voice saying "this ain't about you!" I thought to myself what , this ain't about me? I know it's not about me, but I am bored. Then I said....."Oh My God" Who do I think I am to come into the house of the Lord and say anything is boring? It's all about God and he is not boring! I came here to praise him, to worship him, to let him do a new thing in me. I have a lot of nerves to sit here being ungrateful and selfish. God saved me from spinal cancer, allowed me to walk into the church without falling and here I am being selfish! After just this morning, I asked God to bless me and enlarge my territory and he was kind enough to give me with whole pew to myself! (side humor). Any who..?
I begin to pray "God open my eyes and my heart right now, in the name of your son Jesus so that I may see or hear something new that I have never seen before".
Wouldn't you know that God decided to teach me something at that very moment. Our guest Pastor begin his sermon on "Dry Bones." I just started crying. The scripture reference was Ezekiel 37:3-6 And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answered, "O Lord God, You know." Again He said to me "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, "O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!" Thus says the Lord God to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord." WOW!
If I received nothing from the whole message, this was it. How God could take me at that moment and let me know that it is he alone who gives me breath, and flesh over my dry bones that I may praise and worship him. So when you are feeling that it is about you, know it is not about you it is always about God. Know that the enemy has no control over you unless you give it to him. See had I left, the word would have been snatched away. The people who did leave, they missed a powerful message that could have given them something they needed.
Make room for the word of God. It is when we get so caught up in ourselves that we forget God is the one in control. So what if things aren't going your way, pray. So what you are bored, pray. Pray, and then pray again and watch how God turns the situation around. I'm telling you when I left I was so fired up and renewed I just couldn't do anything but smile. I am so glad that I made room for my blessing and still had time to go out for dinner and to the movies. Isn't God good!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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