Stand in awe
In a conference like Hillsong, you can experience waves and waves of God's glory and His presense. It's easy to get to an emotional high and just feel overwhelmed by the beauty of His presense.
The thing is, if you're just too busy enjoying the feelings, when the waves are gone, when the feelings faded, you're left with nothing but memory. But if you can remain cool in the heat of the emotions, you'll receive something solid that will last much longer.
Too much presense, one will blow up. Too much word, one will dry up. Some bread, some drink, you'll feel full and satisfied.
Sometimes when the drink comes first, we tend to just keep drinking and drinking, leaving no room for solids. But if all your having is water, sure it will quench your thirst, but pretty soon you'll still be feeling hungry rather than satisfied.
I remember some preacher said once, when the presense of God comes, don't fall, STAND! Take the bread as well!
For me personally, I find God will always speak to me in His presense, especially during worship time. If I have a ear to listen, then He will speak. But a lot of the times I'm just too busy looking around, too busy feeling good, too busy trying to sing right(Thanks to those singing lessons I took and the knowledge I got for the techniques..lol) that I miss giving God my full attention and then miss out on what He has to say to me. Interestingly, a lot of the times the messages that the preachers brought about later on are from a different angle of the messages God speaks to me during the worship time.
Saturday, July 10, 2004
