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God Shows Up cont’d
On my journey to Pentecost God shows up and met me
Just when I thought…. well this is interesting, God shows up,
this has to be a good omen or a good sign because there is hope right there in a place of deepest emptiness, to test to
in hopelessness, certainly God shows up to bring light to our depths of and the strength of my faith, to ensure that I
darkness and circumstances because only He can make the hold fast to the virtues of the Spirit of the Lord of
impossible possible. But then my initial excitement was short Heaven, which is love, joy, peace temperance,
lived, as it appeared that God had His own questions, as he was kindness, goodness, faithfulness gentleness and self-
trying to get our attention, perhaps for a while. Then, there was control.
this inquisitiveness from the spirit, which suggested that we
have not done things as we ought, there was something about On my journey to Pentecost God shows up to ascertain
the extent of our surrender to and reliance on His will, and that I am adequately supplied with spiritual food on His
whether our worship and praise has really been enriched by the word and by His word and that I am truly drawn to His
power of the Holy Spirit as we professed. As I began grace and righteousness.
rationalizing my thoughts, I concluded that either God shows up On my journey to Pentecost God shows up because he
to bring good news or He shows up to show us that we carry is aware that I am to demonstrate His kindness and
with us unrecognizable guilt. To bring us to a place where we generosity of Spirit, and that I have followed the
have no choice but to die to ourselves. To do this He actually decree of the first commandment which directs me to
has been using the circumstances in our lives for our good so love the Lord with all my heart and soul, mind and
that we may cry out “O living God” as reprieve. This is where strength, and that I have truly loved my neighbour as
the roughness of the path took on another dimension and an myself.
interaction with God began.
