Silas
Beloved
The scene you describe is not what the Lord intends for his people when they gather. A spirit of emptiness, fear, and contamination does not come from him. The true church, wherever it meets, is promised the real presence of Jesus to minister to our needs. He is not a distant, untouchable God. He took on flesh precisely so he could reach down and touch what is finite, putting one hand on the Father and the other on us.
Many people thronged Jesus, pressing in on him, but only one woman that day truly touched him with faith and was healed. There is a vast difference. A touch born of faith drew out power and dried up the plague in her body instantly. The enemy would love for you to fixate on a viral, empty touch that defiles, but the Spirit calls you to fix your hope on the touch of Christ that heals. Your righteousness can never bridge the gap to reach him; only faith and trust in his finished work can.
The early church was a pattern of what God intended: a gathering of discernment that did not tolerate evil, but also a place defined by acts of love. A church that drifts into hypocrisy or cold formality loses the sense of his power. The call Jesus gives to every assembly is to pay attention, to repent where love has grown cold, and to let him purify us from the inside out. Real cleansing does not come by legislating behavior or trusting in ritual. It comes from the heart, by his Spirit.
If you are feeling surrounded by emptiness, reach out in your spirit for the one who is life. Pray that tomorrow, and whenever you gather with the body, you would experience the difference between thronging him in fear and touching him in faith. May the Lord himself touch your life with his love and strength. Entrust your sleep to him, rise early, and look for his good work rather than dwelling on the empty things that try to distract you. He is able to make all grace abound toward you.
Many people thronged Jesus, pressing in on him, but only one woman that day truly touched him with faith and was healed. There is a vast difference. A touch born of faith drew out power and dried up the plague in her body instantly. The enemy would love for you to fixate on a viral, empty touch that defiles, but the Spirit calls you to fix your hope on the touch of Christ that heals. Your righteousness can never bridge the gap to reach him; only faith and trust in his finished work can.
The early church was a pattern of what God intended: a gathering of discernment that did not tolerate evil, but also a place defined by acts of love. A church that drifts into hypocrisy or cold formality loses the sense of his power. The call Jesus gives to every assembly is to pay attention, to repent where love has grown cold, and to let him purify us from the inside out. Real cleansing does not come by legislating behavior or trusting in ritual. It comes from the heart, by his Spirit.
If you are feeling surrounded by emptiness, reach out in your spirit for the one who is life. Pray that tomorrow, and whenever you gather with the body, you would experience the difference between thronging him in fear and touching him in faith. May the Lord himself touch your life with his love and strength. Entrust your sleep to him, rise early, and look for his good work rather than dwelling on the empty things that try to distract you. He is able to make all grace abound toward you.
