Something Supernatural

Refreshing rain is beginning to fall and green grass like new hope is emerging. Personally though, many of us have been suffering from a spiritual drought as we contend with a rising cost of living and prices along with talk of economic gloom and layoffs. We need some spiritual rain; something supernatural to revive our

reasons for being committed to the work of the Lord.

Sometimes we have a sudden realisation that we are working at our faith and not just resting in our faith; we are going through all the routines of Christian life without any sense of the nearness of the Lord’s loving presence. We need something to happen that will lift our consciousness to another plane. We need something supernatural.

Jesus has promised in John 10:10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” He did not say ...”that they may have church abundantly!” It sometimes feels like that when not much is happening.

There are seasons of dryness that follow busyness. We lose the natural easy rhythm of spiritual life so easily when we unconsciously take on too much. Why do we repeat these cycles? Is it some kind of guilt or need to impress the Lord when we commit to achieving much ‘doing’ instead of ‘being’?

Martha was a practical ‘doing’ person in John 11 and we respect the energy and commitment of such individuals. But she was missing it! There was Jesus right there and she could not see the wood for the trees. How easy it would be to make Church this weekend just another Sunday and miss the awesome possibilities.