Way Cool

Okay, so tonight at youth group, something amazing happened.  It was unexpected, but totally amazing.  It’s something I’ve seen many, many times before, but it hits me every time.  Tonight, at around 7:20, a life was saved and a person was reborn.  You’d think after being in church for “years and years” I’d become immune and calloused to things of that nature, but that’s the beauty of it: every time someone new enters the Kingdom of God, the angels really do celebrate and I can feel the Holy Spirit flutter and jump for joy in my chest, ecstatic that another of his children will spend eternity with him.  I was really honored to witness such a marvelous event tonight, and it kind of makes one think about perspective.  Here we all are, going through our daily lives, mostly oblivious to the fact that there is a war going on all around us, and we are both the prize and the warriors. Winning is simple, but, like normal humans, we tend to make things harder on ourselves than they really should be.  All it takes is admitting we can’t save the world on our own, that we can’t handle the weight of our sin, nor can we rid ourselves of it.  That’s what this person did tonight, and they will spend eternity in the very presence of God!  I call that victory.