Unspeakable Joy.

Recently Christ has given me a whole new perspective on life.


He has given me so much pure joy in life, joy I have never experienced before. I have learned how important spending time with my God really is. My time with God is absolutely vital in my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Everything in life has so much more meaning, so much more color, when I am infatuated with the Spirit. I will do my best to explain what I have been experiencing, but please understand, this kind of joy is completely unspeakable, only truly understood through experience. How exciting.


Take worship for example. Going to church week to week, thinking I can just show up and "get something" out of worship is a complete lie from Hell. If everyday we spend time in God's love letter, pour ourselves into His hand, and learn about how worthy, holy, and just completely indescribable He is, then by the time Sunday comes around, we are so filled with awe and wonder and reverence that we can't help but completely lose our composure in worship. 


Worship means so so much more to me when I constantly point my thoughts and passion into Scripture and prayer during every hour of the day. My feelings toward God are so overwhelming that I am immediately thrust into a state of passionate life changing worship each week. 


Please do not take my word on this. I am begging you. Being saturated by the Spirit of God is an experience that no one should miss out on. I am in tears as I write to you because of how badly I want you to experience the joy that comes from being saturated in the Spirit. 


I am going to attempt the impossible task of trying to explain this joy to you. 


There are many different people that attend weddings. First, there are the acquaintance relatives and friend-of-a-friend's. These people probably have spent very little time with the couple getting married, they probably will go to the wedding only because they don't have any other plans that day. They will probably sit in the back, watch the ceremony, and then leave. They have no real emotional ties to the couple, the wedding might make them smile or feel a slight, short feeling of happiness, but it soon will disappear and they will go on with normal life like nothing ever happened. 


Then there is the wedding party and the parents of the couple. These people have invested time into this wedding and into the couples lives. They have prepared some, and made sacrifices, they have given some of their lives to make this day sweet. They look forward to the ceremony and will enjoy it and maybe their lives will be slightly affected after. 


Then. Then there is the bride and groom. This is the day they have waited for their entire lives. They have put everything into this relationship and everything into preparing themselves for this day. They have sacrificed everything they possibly could for this one day. When the moment finally comes to exchange vows, there is no hiding the joy and absolute passion the bride and groom have for each other. They both have completely abandoned life as they have always known it, to spend eternity with each other because they know that all their sacrifices are completely worth it. This day and moment will change them for the rest of their lives.


I think it is no accident that God chose to call us His bride. He wants that passion, sacrifice, and pure joy from us. Everyday when we sacrifice time to spend with Him, prepare our hearts to delve into His word, and tune our ears to His whisper, we are preparing ourselves to experience a reunion with God like no other. 


Every single time we come before the Lord in worship, it should be a reminder of that day that we first exchanged our vows with Christ. When we first decided to live with Christ instead of being alone. Every time we go to worship, we shouldn't come out the same person. 


I can't even express to you the excitement that this mental picture gives me. 


The Lord wants us to experience His joy like never before, every time we worship Him. It is so much more than singing, so much more than "gathering our thoughts" or saying hi to people we haven't seen in a whole week before the message comes. Worship is our time to remember our wedding day. 


Let us never be deceived into thinking that worship doesn't really matter, or that it is only for some people but not for me, or that we don't need to prepare for worship, it just "happens". No. Satan knows how life changing sacrificial worship is. He wants with his whole being to distract us and make us believe that we don't need to be saturated in the Spirit to experience true worship. This is a lie straight from Hell. I could not use stronger words. 


God is waiting on you to be completely intertwined with Him on a daily bases. He is waiting for you to lay your composure aside and give Him your everything in worship. He has called you by name and He wants you to remember your wedding day. 


"Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready." -Revelation 19:7