Spiritually Desensitized

Yesterday at church we had a baptism during the time of decision (that's the time after the message, before you leave). What was cool was a ton of people decided to get baptised during the service and just went out and did it. The message was all about decisions. How we as Christians have to make decisions all the time. Some need earnest prayer, others you simply need to know your bible to know what God's decision is, some decisions aren't the ones that make since, others are not the popular decision. but they all are God's will. He gave everyone the opportunity to respond in their own way, and some chose to get baptised. So, at first I was like "Cool, people gettin' dunk for Jesus... I've seen this a thousand times... no biggie!". So when they started worship, they began to feed the video from the baptism (which was outside) to the big screen that had the words to the worship songs on it. You could see live what was happening outside the building as the people in the building worshiped and prayed to God. That is when the power of what was happening really hit me. I almost felt guilty because I think that I sometimes become numb to the idea of other people making decisions for Christ. I get excited about sports, and vacation, and video games, and even work/school, but when was the last time I actually got jacked up emotionally for someone giving their life to Jesus, or being baptised to show the world your faith is in Christ. I watched as those people got dunked and almost began to weep. I asked God to never let me get to the point where this doesn't affect me emotionally. I asked God to never let me get desensitized to what He (God, Jesus) is doing in the world around me. That is a scary place, when the distractions of this world out way your excitement for what God is doing right in front of your freakin' face!

"God, never let me get to that point again. Forgive me for letting myself ever get there in the first place. Let every decision for Christ, baptism, testimony, life change, spiritual decision, always bring overwhelming joy to my heart. If there is celebration in heaven when one person decides to follow Jesus, then there should be celebration in my heart. I ask you again to forgive me for ever getting there, and never let me be desensitized to your hand at work in my world ever again! I love you Jesus. Amen"

AG