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at a football game found themselves perplexed by the seemingly random
cheers of other fans at the game. The home team was losing badly,
yet in the middle of a huddle a number of people across the stadium jumped
out of their seats and a let out a huge cheer. Minutes later, during
a time out, another cheer was heard across the stadium. Who were
these lunatics? What the heck were they cheering about? They
seemed completely out of touch with reality and people began to feel
uncomfortable being around them.
What the fans sitting in glum silence didn't realize
though was that only miles away, the city's major league baseball team
was making a stunning comeback and was about to lock in its place in the
World Series. The cheering fans weren't lunatics at all. They
were all listening to the game on portable radios and responding in unison
to the play-by-play broadcast. They were simply tuned into something
that the others couldn't perceive and were participating in both games at
once.
For years I thought that people who believed in God
were not just out of their seats, but out of their minds. Who the
heck were they worshiping and praising? They seemed so irrational
and completely out of touch with reality, and frankly I
felt quite uncomfortable around them. What I've since discovered is that
they were simply tuned into something that I wasn't. While I was
only participating in the physical part of life's existence, they were participating in both the
physical and spiritual at once.
I've now turned to God as well, through prayer, worship and
scripture, and know what it's like to have my life touched by His
presence, love and counsel. I share in the praises of the believers, but I also
remember what it's like to be sitting in an uncomfortable spiritual silence. It
needn't be that way though. We've all been given the ability to hear the quiet voice that stirs
within the soul, to know the insight that comes from an understanding
beyond our own. All we need to do is to tune in to a different
frequency ... and a Higher Power.
"Father, glorify
your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it,
and will glorify it again." The crowd that was there and heard it
said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him. Jesus said,
"This voice was for your benefit, not mine."
Words of Jesus Christ in John 12:28-30 "And
I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with
you forever--the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it
neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you
and will be in you."
Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:16-17 "The
Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to
you."
Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:26 "Don't
you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives
in you?"
1 Corinthians 3:16
"We're not human
beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human
experience."
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