Boredom in Paradise?
There is no other place on earth like the assembly of the believers—a place
where God promises He’ll be in their midst. A place where Jesus Himself said He
would be. There is no other place where His body comes together. This uniquely
belongs to the gathering of believers, for this is where God is in her midst.
If
this is so (and it is), why is there so much boredom? How is it that people can
come and go without their needs, whatever they may be, being met? With so much boredom, how is it that we should expect
others, whether boomers, millennials, or Gen-Zs, to come and become a part of the assembly? The world is exciting, but shouldn’t God be more exciting?
Boredom
easily paves the path to sin. Maybe this is why there is little difference between
believers and those who don’t know Christ. David was bored and look what
happened:
It happened in
the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David
sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the
people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 Then it
happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of
the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was
very beautiful to behold. 3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And
someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of
Uriah the Hittite?"
2 Samuel 11:1-3
David
was supposed to be in the battle, but he was disengaged in the things
he was supposed to be doing. Hence, his feet took him to a place he should not
have been—a place where sin was crouching at his door.
Am
I just venting or is there a point?
I
have never experienced anything more beautiful and worth giving my life for than
the interaction of the Holy Spirit. I don’t mean just for the exercising of
spirit gifts, but the real manifest Presence of God interacting with me. Though
gifts often result from this interaction, especially in the midst of the assembly, they are not what I live for.
When
He isn’t manifesting and when I am not encountering Him, I miss Him.
As
New Covenant believers, He is everything to us. Without His anointing and
manifest Presence we are bored—I am bored.
Church becomes a club.
Teaching becomes stale bread.
If
the Holy Spirit was given proper place in His church, people wouldn’t want to
displease the One who is so awesome. There would be a greater reason to live. People
would share this Beautiful One with those around them. They would have an
anointing to minister to others in power, rather than just talking from their head. They would
get words of knowledge and prophecies as they spoke and the hearers would experience
the reality of God.
The
remedy for boredom is God! God Himself interacting with us.
Pursue Him.
Encounter Him.
Encounter Him.
Love
Him.
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