I often wonder why I have such a powerful connection with God
outside of “church”. When I am driving my car to/from work or when I am
cleaning/hanging in my room the worship that I have is enough to move
mountains. However, if you were to spot me in church on Sunday morning, I’m as
quiet as a mouse. Corporate prayer and study has never been my thing. I find to
many eyes are doing Gods job. Watching and judging. It’s quite distracting. I
know that getting the word is essential to my spiritual health but everything
around it, I could do without. I love hearing and having God open my mind to
understand his word. I pray that everyone experiences this with God. What I
have come to realize is that the “church” is not a building or a gathering. The
church is literally every individual. You are your church. If you purposely
spend time with God, he can, wants and will reveal wonders of his word to you.
I will so say, that it is good to fellowship- Jesus said, where two or
three are gathered in my name, I am there with you [Matt 18:20] . But there is
something about being alone with just God that is indescribable. I find that even in the bible Jesus often went
away to pray to the father alone, Abraham received the word alone, Moses received
the commandments alone, David went against Goliath alone and so on. All alone
physically but with God spiritually.
Maybe I have a strange relationship with God. To me, God is not
just some figure in the sky or some distant being in my mind. God is real to
me. When I speak, I know that he hears and answers. He comforts and protects.
He guides and corrects. God is real to me. I guess it’s a good thing after all
to have such a powerful connection to God outside of church. Someone once said
that church is the climax of your week with God. All week you seek his presence,
you worship, praise and pray. You build up so much during the week that when
you gather with other fellow believers who have been doing the same, it is an
explosion of glory to God on Sunday. Now, unfortunately for me, I haven't quite gotten the Sunday climax thing down. I'm still struggling a bit. Help me pray on this folks! I don't think the church is looking for seat warmers on Sundays.
Love ya to Peace,
Faith.Loves
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