March 19, 2007
By John Boyles

 

Intoxicating, overwhelming, suffocating, deep.

 

All of these are words used to describe an experience of magnificent proportions. Words that many, if not all of us, would like to be forced to pull out of our mental dictionary to describe our relationship with Jesus. Not just as a once in awhile occurrence, but rather to describe to others our ongoing, daily interaction with our Father.

 

I have been buried under such a blanket of His presence for the last two hours, such a heavy, thickness, that I can physically feel its effects like a lead blanket on my chest, compressing me, each breath almost requiring effort. It’s truly awesome.

 

Thank you Jesus.

 

I think back to how often I have longed for such a deep relationship with Him, one in which I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, that He was real; not that I doubted His existence in general, but I had longed for more than carrying on one-way conversations with an invisible friend, and simply hoping I was heard. I wanted something deeper than the normal experience I have had at a good church service, where the Holy Ghost is moving.

 

Yet now that I have learned the secret, each time I come face to face with Him, it is nearly too much for me, and I almost push it away. I can only imagine how Moses must have felt on the Mount when he asked the Lord to reveal Himself, and I now understand why God covered him with His hand as He passed by.

 

Imagine the overwhelming feeling of being in love multiplied 1,000 times.

 

It is during times like these that I understand what Isaiah must have felt when he penned:

“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 6:5).

 

 

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