Hooked on God!

Was listening to a Kim Clements song: “Why did I run away?...Because I wanted to hear His voice again.” Of course he is referring to Elijah when he ran away after the spectacular experience with the prophets of Baal and God won! Haven’t you had those times with the Lord that were so special, but when you “came down” from them it was kind of like being thrown into a tub full of ice water! You just want to remain there with Him and experience Him again and again and again. You’re hooked on God!

At such times you could be in a den of lions, i.e. a room full of atheists and muslims and they could give you all the possible arguments as to why your beliefs are crazy and irrational; they are right and you are wrong. At such times laughing is what comes to mind, for Christianity is not just another “religious belief”. It is literally experiencing God and learning to walk with Him. The old-time Pentecostals used to say: “It’s better felt than telt!” Of course life isn’t all ecstatic experiences. There is plenty of warfare, mud and desert—the places where character is formed and we are shaped into the likeness of Christ; those places where our testimony may, at times, simply be that we are still standing.

It is not difficult to imagine why we need new bodies in the next life. Without them we would all fall down like Daniel did and be sick for weeks.  The story is told of a kitten that used to hang around when the farmer was hand milking his cows. Occasionally the farmer would squirt milk in the direction of the kitten who would open his mouth to receive his bounty. The farmer walked away for a minute and the kitten climbed to the top of the full pail of milk and then accidentally fell in. He sank to the bottom of the pail and nearly drowned. But, he swam to the top and was heard to say: “O for the capacity equal to my opportunity." One day we will have that new capacity.