Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Drink it first, before your day gets
started…because we never know what our day may hold.
When someone
mentions the date “September 11, 2101” or simply 9-11, our minds immediately rivet
back that awful day when the terrorist group led by Muslim
extremist Osama bin Laden, struck America with a series of violent attacks. Do
you know what happened in our churches in the weeks that followed? They began to fill up! People were desperately
seeking a sense of meaning in all the turmoil.
George
Barna, director of Barna Research, found that church attendance initially
exploded, only to dwindle away in the weeks and months following the crisis. He
suggests that “churches succeeded at putting on a friendly face but failed at
motivating the vast majority of spiritual explorers to connect with Christ in a
more intimate or intense manner."
Could
it be that people were looking for answers… but not truly seeking God? Some things we could never truly grasp. Our spiritual journey consists of many
periods where Gods wants us simply to trust Him….and that is when we grow the
most in our spiritual walk!
May we boldly take the hand of God as He leads us step by step….even along an unfamiliar path.
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