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Open the flood gates
I ran into the church building. I was late. New Comunnity had been going for at least 25 minutes now. I ran so as not to miss much more of worship. Once a month my church has what we call New Comunnity. Its when all of our church comes to gether to sing worship songs and take the bread and juice. I've never really got to do this before. I've always been running the show. Either I was working backstage or doing something with the lights. This time I had nothing to do. I was just one of the church people coming in for worship. I ran into a good friend. She smile and asked if I would sit with her. " Of course!" I replied. We walked over to the far right. The band was playing and people were getting batized as they played worship. We sat down... I looked around. I was always shy about singing around people. I always wanted to keep my voice to myself. So I sort of mouth moved along with the songs. The song ended. Everybody clapped as Kyle ( the man speaking that night ) sat down and got ready to begin. They had already passed out the bread so we sat waiting for his little speach to be over so that we could eat our little craker. I held mine in my hand. Looked at it and then really began to listen to waht Kyle was saying... He talked about how we all had heard Jesus say " Eat this and remember Me" and how so many of us just forget....he pushed on asked How? How can we be able to remember things like all the names of people who live in our neighborhoods. Remember all the phone numbers to all our friends, and still day by day forget the one thing we should remember the most. Christ dying for us. The look on his face as he speaked. The tone in his voice. It woke me up. My thoughts where on God and God alone. It was as if I didn't even notice the people around me. Kyle said we could eat our bread. I took it and they began to play the next song. I started to sing. I mean real singing. My heart was just pouring out into this song that I was singing to my God. I didn't see anybody around me. My eyes were closed and my palms tured to the sky as I had them laying on my lap. Tears....I felt tears. I was crying! As I was singing! Infront of 1,400 people! The song ended. The juice had been passed. I held the tiny little cup in my hands. Looking at the rich deep color of red in this drink. Kyle started again. Now he was talking about the blood of Christ. All these things I have heard before but never had I felt what I was at the time. I had stopped crying. My eyes fixed on the big screen. I watched and listened as Kyle spoke. I now even to this day can't tell anybody what Kyle said. It didn't go into my brain as something to remember, but into my heart as something I felt. As he was talking the piano started to play. Then next the guitar, then the bass, then the drums. The song " Let It Rain" was playing.....
" Let it rain. Let it rain. Open the flood gates of heaven and let it rain. Let it rain. Open the flood gates of heaven and let it rain. "
The songs was building. My heart racing. I sang out to God! Looking up with tears in my eyes! Let it rain!!! As we were singing Kyly told us to take our juice. I did so and the song coninuted. Kyle began to read from the Bible as we sang. I can't tell you what verse it was...or whatver book it came from. I know those words were coming from God and strait to me!! I cried harder. " Our God is an Awesome God" Was the next song. My tears were flowing. I was broken before my God. I was open to Him and I felt Him there! The last song was a fast one. One with lots of clapping! I was done crying my happy tears and by then had a smile like no other. That night....I came broken. Not that close with God. I left together and closer with God then ever before! That night I will never forget. The night I asked. " open the flood gates of Heaven and let it RAIN!!! "
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I really enjoyed reading it...it made me think too. Keep up the good work
