Reminded

In May 2003, I went to a worship gather called One Day. Words cannot express what God did in my heart that day. It seems so long ago, yet now it is fresh on my mind.

I watched the Passion:Sacred Revolution DVD tonight! If you have a chance, you should watch it and try to imagine being there. I was and I can hardly pull together my memories. It was amazing. There were thousands of people there. I have heard estimates from 30-80 thousand. Passion has still to release the attendance number.

Here are somethings that I can remember that are worth sharing. The amount of people there was unreal, nothing other than Christ could have united all of us. The sound of all of those people was amazing, all worshiping God with songs and praise. Nothing can compare to the noise that was made on the field that day, except the silence of the crowd. 50,000 people quiet...Dealing with God in their hearts. I imagine heaven was quiet during those moments. Angels must have been in awe. After all we have a choice!

I love music, God does not use much else speaks to the core of my heart, except babies and puppies, like music. At some points I would just sit and listen, when I was still and I could feel the ground moving. Now I am not talking about concrete or a stage, but actually ground... You know dirt and grass, hills and rocks. It was so cool. Texas sun hurts. It was a cloudy day and I had on sunscreen and I still got sunburned, BAD!

All day long worship was good and God was speaking wonderful and tender things to my heart, but I had not had that epiphany moment that I had been praying for and hoping for. God knew my heart wasn't where it needed to be during the day so a series of events took place that took me to a place of brokenness before men and before God. First, I was sunburned really bad. My arms, face and tops of my feet were so red. I was in tons of pain, plus that cold chill feeling you get when you are burned had started to kick in. Second, I was hungry... We had fasted during the day and breakfast was at least 10 hours ago. I was thirsty, water was gone and I didn't want to walk to get more. I was tired. We drove to Texas on a Sunday after church, I may have gotten 4 hours of sleep the 2 nights before this one. God used all of these factors to get me to a place of vulnerability.. And when He did the experience was awesome. The last song of the night was All This For a King/O Praise Him by the David Crowder Band. I melted. I cried and cried harder than I have in a LONG time. The music was so loud and the worship so intense that the people I was with had no idea. It was just me and God and that was good.

As I look back on that day, I am reminded that God has taken me to the Holy place. He has drawn me to His side and shown Himself to me... What a reminder!