concentrate for the same length of time on revealing ourselves to others in an effort to get to know one another more intimately, like brothers and sisters are supposed to. Let's start with something easy, like what do you find awesome about your Lord?
Pretty good idea for a hayseed. Give me a few hours and I will narrow it down to one thing --- seriously. Actually, now that I think about it -- no contest. For me, it is God's ability to fill me up to overflowing. I had been a child of God for 40 years when I was first filled. I was single at the time and had dated a gal from the United Pentecostal Church of God. We had gone to church and left separately. If you are not familiar with that church, it is a tough place to go if you are not sure of who you are in the Lord. They might as well pass out 8x11 pictures of a target, pin it to your chest as they smile and welcome you into the sanctuary.
God has often used the emotion of the song service to fill me since that time, but on that occasion, there was no emotion. I had left the worship service that night feeling like I had just escaped a witch hunt. The filling occurred in my car, no tongues, an obvious statement from God that filling can occur any time and any where and that it is not the result of simple emotionalism. Anyway, "church" for me is an occasion for that filling, a confirmation of who I am (a child of God) and the relationship I share with a partner God.
Praise the Lord
John Smithson
