Text: Mark 9:7-23
One most interesting
and fascinating experience I have encountered in private or public worship is
that moment when suddenly you are submerged in an avalanche of glory and you
begin to fall. You try to gain control and “Boom!” you hit the floor. It is glorious
and your life is never the same.
CONTEMPLATION
Often when we invite
God to our moments of worship we forget that when He truly shows up our frail
being does not have the power to stand in His awesome presence. But like He did
with Adam in the cool of the day, such moment is meant to be a time of
spiritual empowerment and systematic update of the man He created. As you make
use of a computer it is required of you to do software update once in a while
in order for it to remain relevant and meet the needs ahead. The heavenly
Father knows that there is no way the man He created could become fully like
Him the day he created Adam. That would be too much power for a creation of His
to handle. Therefore, at the cool of the day when Adam would have become exhausted
from work as he administered the earth, it became appropriate for God to
refresh him. It was an empowerment for the assignment ahead. After such
encounter, nothing was a problem too big for Adam to handle the next day.
“Our times of
worship are actually times of spiritual
renewal. They
are opportunities for us to be transformed as
we encounter
the awesome glory of God, but not many get
it... The
manifest glory of man was meant to be greater than
that of the
angels, but after the fall mortal man could not
stand the presence of
angels.” FFPW p104
Whatever challenge you
are facing will change for good if you will just keep your fellowship with God
real and fresh.
PRACTICAL ISSUES
Until you approach
worship as an intimate relationship all you will have is mere religious
activities.
When was the last time you got submerged in the glory of
God?. Daily Devotional by Rev. Igho. Y; the Glorious Fountain Ministries.
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