When God Moves

There are so many people who have never felt the presence of God. They either have never gone to church or have abandoned it to fulfill their own Sunday morning wishes. Recently I have really seen God moving in my life and in the lives around me. Fellowship with other Christians is so important and yet there often is no where for people my age to feel comfortable.

My church home abandoned me and my family as I was just learning what it meant to be an adult. We have struggled to find a place where we all feel comfortable since. My parents being older are looking for a community church where they can make some friends their own age while my brother is trying to find a really contemporary church with his high school friends. I just want to find a place where I can feel truly accepted as most people don't count me as an adult and being in college I tend to move around a lot.

God has answered so many of my prayers in the last few months. He has removed some of the most toxic people from my life and given me the most wonderful people I could ask for. I'm sure I am not alone when I say that my boyfriend would rather sleep in than go to church. This has been difficult for me because as a Christian God calls us both to serve His church and going to church is a good start. He feels as if he would have nothing to offer the church even if he did go. He only really likes sports and most churches aren't big on that. My boyfriend has been so supportive with my recent health problems and general high maintenance that he must be sent from God and I can't help but feel like something is wrong if we aren't at church to thank Him for it. With all the things we have done against God is it so difficult to give up an hour or so on a Sunday morning to spend with the church.

It seems as if every day Satan works so hard against us and Sunday is the only day many of us even have time to receive battle plans to fight back. How in the world must we be before we fall on our faces before God. Must we be beaten, bruised, sick, and tortured like Job before we get out of bed and shake hands with the Christian from down the street on a Sunday morning. Is it so bad. If we all made Him our priority these things would be our first nature while sin took a backseat. You can't live in the world and in sin if you are constantly living in and for God.

What if church wasn't about you looking good or feeling something? What if church was about healing the sick and injured? What if when you were sick you went to church instead of the hospital? What would happen if we let drunks in without a second thought along with prostitutes and everything in between? Jesus did just that and we are to be like Him. If a person who is in Christ can't feel comfortable in a church how could someone so different. No one should have to fit into a mold. You have a swearing problem well we have a tithing jar for that. If anything we should bring in the tattoo artists. We could always use more that say Jesus saves. The church is there to heal the sins we have committed because we are all sinners. Most of us just feel better about hiding ours. Why can't everyone feel like they have a place in the church? When God moves so many beautiful things can be done and this world needs Him so desperately. If our churches would only give Him some space I'm sure His church would simply dance.