Switch 3-24-06

So we haven’t had Switch in about a month. Two weeks ago, on our usual Switch night, we had winter camp. Tonight was a little crazy. A few members of the band were very late. I also had to get a bass player for the night, since my rhythm guitar player was gone, and my usual bass player played for him. All in all, the night started off decently, but it could have been way better.

It’s always a little challenging when you don’t have your normal meeting, and try to come back from that. This week, we had our usual amount, but a few of our regulars were out. We also had a few visitors, which numerically balanced it out.Since the band was late, it made practice just ok, and thus the worship portion was just ok (from a technical standpoint). The gametime was also ok, many of the girls didn’t participate (it WAS pretty gross, taking each other’s socks off with our feet?!?!?) But when I started preaching, I could totally feel that I was completely in my element, and the Spirit of God was going to do something.

My message was about God being on the throne, regardless of what we go through. Often times, when things don’t go so well for us, we tend to think that God must not be in it. The fact is, God is still on the throne, and is still overseeing the universe. Just because our little situation might be getting a little crazy, He doesn’t stop being God. His throne endures forever, according to Psalm 45, verse 6. No matter what happens, He is still God.The cool thing was that number 1, it was a message that was totally timely for the students. Many of them responded to the altar call, which I don’t normally do. I usually break them into small groups and have their leader talk to them about the message. I knew that there would be some that just needed God, and I wanted to give them opportunity to surrender their situations to Him. It was really cool.

The second thing was that the response at the altar time, literally personified my message. As I mentioned earlier, there were several things that just weren’t coming together the way that I was planning them to. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t great either. But then God showed up and was God. And that was basically the core of my message. God is so awesome!