Back Into His Presence

When you have been halfway round the world with more than full of what an average person could have experienced. When you have walked back and forth the same patterns of temporary happiness and repetitive heartaches- and when you're empty, seeking for something real, it would have been easy to break free on Kim Walker's cue, "brace yourself, encounter the love of God ". With the power of the Holy Spirit, you would have had open up your heart in an instant. We all have had that encounter. At some previous point of our journey, we all have had that moment when we feel the grace of God and flow of the Spirit that eventually would lead us into the calling. Whether it had been through any worship experience, or a lay-hand prayer, or a delivered word that simply just had paved its way in the depths of our being. We all had that encounter. And let's face it, we would all want that encounter back.

Honestly in the actual journey, when you've been more than halfway through His word with a full involvement in His church more than an average Christian would. When you have walked back and forth the same patterns of taming your worldly desires and avoiding all that may lead you temptation- and when you think you are already full, not in dire need of seeking, that's when we actually lose contact of the authentic source which fueled our faith in the first place. We become like what seemed functional equipment, but those which are not plugged in to an outlet. We desperately try to figure out where we lack in faith when we are in fact, as what we claim, "full".  But would full mean failing to re-encounter? Certainly it doesn't.

Philippians 2:1-8

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.

The Scripture speaks of encountering Christ, of His love, His Spirit, compassion, and sympathy, through having the same mind as Him who did not exploit Himself but "emptied Himself".

So there it goes. Maybe all it lack was the necessity to re-empty oneself. After all, how can He fill us when there is nothing to fill in?

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