FALLING IN LOVE WITH JESUS
Falling in love with Jesus! What does that mean to you? Falling in love with Jesus?
I had a very concerned person come up to me and said “I have a question for you” (with a look of great concern on her face). “I have written a script, Falling in love with Jesus! And just to get some feed back on the script, I showed it to an old member in the church and ask what she thought, her response to me was ‘We don’t need to hear this at 11 o’clock service, do this on a special night. I want to hear Pastor preach on Sunday mornings, not a play. Do that some other time, I need to hear the word.’ This left me a little dismayed because Pastor asked me to do this. My response to her was, “Well what does falling in Love with Jesus means?” She said,
“You know how it was when you first found Christ. How there were not a minute when you didn’t want to be in His presence. When you get a chill just thinking about Him, and how He has blessed you. How no matter what you were doing, you had a smile on your face, and you could conquer the world, just because you knew Him?
You know, just happy, happy.” “Yes I remember that well,” I replied. “I still get that feeling whenever I think of Him”. “How often is that?” she asked. I had to stop and think for a moment, ’cause you know I think of Him often, but is it the same way I did when I first fell in love? What about you? Do you feel like you did when you first fell in love with Jesus? Let’s take a moment and think, am I as happy now as I was then? Can I still conquer the world? Or Do I still need to sit on Sunday mornings and just listen to Pastor preach, or should I now know enough to help others, to serve in the service, rather than being entertained? ‘Cause if I have heard him every Sunday morning, I should have enough word to be of service instead of in service, hummmm!
This is not just a story, this is how many of us think. We feel that coming to church every Sunday is what we suppose to do: to sit there and listen to what Pastor says and say amen (every now and then) and praise God, and go home and wait until next Sunday, to do it all over again. Yes we might go to Wednesday night Bible study, and to a meeting or two during the week, (out of duty) but is this a habit you learned as a child, because your Mother instilled it in you or are you really in love with Jesus? I feel being in love with Jesus comes with some responsibilities. One being to love His people. This to me means being able to help someone else to fall in love with Jesus too! If I only think of Him as being mine and not sharing Him, I feel He would be very limited. The Word says “God gave His only begotten Son, so that the world would be saved” not just me. And I feel it would make Him very happy if after I experience His love, that I share it with someone else. So maybe I am not fully sharing, if I come to church just so I can hear Pastor preach or teach; maybe I have heard enough so I can share? Maybe I now should be standing up with him, instead of sitting down looking up at him. Giving instead of taking, praying for instead of being prayed for. Showing our children, the Word works, and how it works, and how falling in love with Jesus can be the best thing they will ever do!
So now that I have gotten this revelation, what will I do with it, is this for my ears only, or is this something I need to share also? We have so many opportunities to share what God has given us, but we chose to keep it inside and try to do better ourselves when sometime it is not just for me, but for all of us. I don’t want to make others feel uncomfortable, and it might be just for me: no I don’t think so cause I do not make up a church, and God needs all his vessels. He needs all of us who has fallen in love with Him to step up and help Pastor show and teach His love. So on this Sunday morning will you please just take a moment and think WHAT FALLING IN LOVE WITH JESUS REALLY MEANS TO YOU!
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