Celebrate good times . . . come on!!

This title doesn't really have anything to do with the post :)

We had Celebration in the quad last night. Celebration is a worship gathering of all Malone students who want to come. It was a great time. Great worship! Awesome songs, and a wonderful sermon. One thing bothered me all night long and it wasn't the lack of sincerety in everybody's hearts; I believe they were sincere. It was said that satan was working, trying to distract. It was mentioned that people were struggling last night because of it. It bothered me that the devil's attempt to distract us actually distracted us!

How faithless we are, if when we are gathered together with the multitude to sing praises to God we become distracted by the weakest link.

My question was: "what should we expect the devil to try tomorrow?" If he can distract us when we are together as one, what is he capable of when we part to our seperate lives the next morning? Excuse me, let us not emphasize the meaesure of satan's ability, rather, let us emphasize the lack on our part.

"Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken, but endures forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people. Both now and forevermore." Psalm 125:1-2

Where is our faith? Where is our trust?

This was not addressed last night. This idea was not mentioned. People walked away seeking the light of Christ; however, they remain BLIND to the darkness that surrounds them. Surely, they are satisfied too easily . . . so as to be happy in seeing a mere flicker of the light.

Pray with me for the generations. People as such are seeking revival, proclaiming that the revolution has begun. Truly, if there should ever be revival, it must first occur in the hearts of these people.

And it will show through the bruises on their knees.

Backward Thinking - Bible Logic

• Society says to desire praise and honor
• We naturally desire praise and honor
• The Bible says to desire praising and honoring God - and not ourselves. Paul actually says in 1st Corinthians 12:
  

7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Thank You, Jesus, for putting a thorn, also, in my side. Thank you for crushing me! Forbit it from me to ever become prideful in Your strength, as if it were my own. Now, I know what boasting in the LORD is. Now, I will brag about You!

Psalm 51:
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.