A Rash Of Insanity

      Can you imagine, Jesus telling us He was going away but would send another comforter, one like Himself and not having that be the most important thing a Christian could possible know?  Insanity grips us and we hang on fiercely to the comforter who isn't here, while ignoring the one who is.  Insanity!  Can you imagine worshipping Jesus, who isn't here, but not worshipping the one like Him who is here?  Insanity! Can you imagine Jesus saying that if He did not go away, the Holy Ghost would not come, people paying no attention to it and acting as if Jesus did not go away?  Insanity!  Can you imagine Jesus dying on the cross to give us the Holy Ghost and men saying "no thanks"?   Insanity!  Can you imagine all the discipleship classes going on that do not start with an full-fledged introduction to the Spirit of adoption, the child-trainer, the Holy Spirit?  How can we be a disciple without walking with the disciple-maker? Insanity. 

    Can you imagine being so loyal to God, the way He is not, while failing miserably to be loyal to Him the way He is?  Insanity!  Can you imagine being given the downpayment of your salvation, the HOly Ghost, and ignore and minimize that downpayment all the while claiming salvation? Insanity!  Can you imagine being given a gift of tongues with which you can talk directly to God, and rejecting it?  Insanity!  Can you imagine having a gift whereby you can worship God in the Spirit, and choosing not to receive it?  Insanity!  Can you imagine having a gift of God unbelievers are to see believers doing, such as speaking tongues, and choosing not to let unbelievers see you doing it?  Insanity! Can you imagine Jesus saying that those who would worship God would have to worship Him in Spirit form and then man continuously attempting to worship God in any form but that?  Insanity!  Can you imagine having the signs, wonders, demonstrations of the Spirit and the power of God, upon which our faith is to stand, available but choosing not to believe in them and worse, base our faith on something else?  Insanity!  Can you imagine having the same anointing that was on Jesus available to us, but choosing not to want it? Insanity!  Can you imagine church being about anything but the manifested presence of God, present and real among us?  Insanity!  Happens everywhere, all the time.  Can you imagine church too big for the Holy Ghost to manifest in for fear it might confuse or offend?  Insanity!

   You know, come to think of it, I think there is a rash of insanity going around.  Thank God it has passed me by.  How about you?