God Really Moved

Have you heard that phrase? We like to use it after an intense worship service, or a particularly active altar call. "God really moved last night."

God is really moving these days. Ummm... it's one of those things, you know, seeing as God is pretty much everywhere. I guess it takes a special level of maturity to tell if He is 'shifting' or not.

God is subtle, though. It's often not the big moves to the altar that really have His signature. It's the quiet little switches that flip in the minds of those who arrive quietly and depart quietly. Going to the altar can be very cathartic. It can fool us into thinking we've really turned the corner. On the other hand, God would rather one person declare themselves dead to sin and alive to His Kingdom than for an entire sanctuary to come forward and make an empty (even if well-intentioned) declaration of any sort.

It's difficult to tell how God moves, sometimes.