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Here and Now

    Worship conferences, mission trips, revival gatherings, etc. all bring in people from around the world hoping to experience Christ. Many believers show up to get a special encounter with God. They think that these things will give them a fresh revelation that they would not otherwise have access to.

    While those things are all well and good, I think that people can use these attractions to chase a ghostly impression of the Holy Spirit. Why do they believe that they have to go looking for Jesus when He is right here with us all the time? When we are born again He lives in us. We do not serve some elusive God that requires us to come search for Him only in the holiest of places. He goes where we go. We take Him with us everywhere.

    If you are seeking God there is no reason that you won't find Him. You don't have to go look for signs and wonders or some gigantic conference to find Him. He is there even when you don't feel Him, if only you'll look. We have Jesus at our disposal at all times. Also, although mission trips are wonderful, we don't have to go out to other places to spread the word about Christ. It starts here and now with those around you. Jesus always meets us right where we are at.

Matthew 28:20 And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (ESV)

Colossians 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (ESV)

 Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (ESV)

 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own (ESV)

 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? (ESV)

 Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. (ESV)

 Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (NIV)

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