I sat with my head pressed against the table listening to worship music. Random lyrics dropped in my spirit and I began to sing, "let it burn". As I sang, I was listening to a message and the pastor began to speak of how we need to remember the upper room mentality. He spoke of how we build walls around us of how we think things should be and we build these walls putting God in a box. He went on to speak of the wise virgins and how that whole thing plays out.
As I sang let it burn, and this pastor spoke of these things, I was brought back to a moment, not even 6 hours earlier as I watched a house burn to the ground. After the fire was put out, I looked at this house. The walls were hanging, no longer attached so to speak to the roof. Everything was chared black. As the house was burning, all I could say was Jesus.
God always speaks to me in weird ways but I must say this was one of those times where I just couldn't believe how it was all playing out. Think about it. Houses…look at them from an ariel view. 4 outter walls that contain multiple inner walls dividing between certain spaces called rooms. In our lives, we compartmentalize our lives. Church in one box, work in another and yet family in another. In our church box, we believe certain things should go a certain way, same with all of our other little boxes. The problem is, if God is in one of these boxes, how does His presence, power and anointing infultrate throughout the other spaces? How do we expect God to move when we stick Him in the bedroom?
Maybe it's a far stretch but I will tell you this. God challenged me in this delecate moment. I do not want to be one of those begging others for oil because I didn't get mine when I knew I needed to. I don't want to place God in a box. I do not want to build walls of idealism around my life because that becomes a false standard. I want our God to infultrate through every room in my house…every area of my life.
My question is: Do you?
