simple one: get High

Jesus: the original drug dealer

God has a sense of humor. big time. so why act all serious all the time? central with all the other wonderful things we could discuss about walking with Jesus; walking with Jesus is characteristically fun and often full of hilarity! i wondered if i should write about this today, when i was reflecting in prayer, but i realized...why not? check it out: Jesus wants you to get blown away. He wants you totally out of your mind for Him. what better way to get you out of your mind than to get you to realize that nothing of the world is more "entertaining" than feeling His presence. for the rest of eternity, He wants you glued to Him. have you ever been to a comedy club? sometimes they are vulgar, which makes me uncomfortable, but often times they are hilarious. every time i go to a comedy club, i leave with a stomach sore from laughter and a face sore from smiling. there is a certain progressiveness about comedy. it is just like a drug. it lifts your moods and actually creates a certain 'floating' sensation for the time you are being entertained... it gets you high like a drug. its sensation grabs your attention... well, at least my attention. i enjoy it, sitting there, forgetting about the world and just clinging to the comedian's every following word and action for my next fix, for that next laugh. comedians love their jobs. i mean, who wouldn't love having people grip to their every word and action with undivided attention. Jesus deserves that kind of attention. and He knows this method perfectly well. these kind of "light and high" sensations are not bad...especially when you are getting them from following Jesus. in fact, Jesus wants you to have these sensations. they are good. they get you high on God...and in the mood to think about the Kingdom, not the world. they get you obsessed with His Word and His Spirit. they get you obsessed with worshiping Him. they get you obsessed with serving Him. and ultimately, these feelings cause an addiction called obedience. obedience to Him. only Him. this is the one obsession, the one "drug" that is good to have. get high on it constantly. let it damage your braincells and transform your mind. it never runs out. and it is free. it is the Holy Spirit.

today, on the drive to work, i asked for God to just pour Himself into my day. to make today His day. to make my usual day unusual with His presence. i basically asked God to get me High on Him.

my prayer was answered. at an office meeting where everyone sits around the table with my boss's boss and hears what they are doing wrong, and what they should keep doing well...something different happened. usually these meetings are a total waste of time. we know what we need to do. we don't need to hear about it in a big meeting to be reminded. but none-the-less, we do anyway. today, the meeting was rich. it was rich with the Holy Spirit. something happened. my boss's boss was grilling my boss and I for not logging our hours on this online office tracking system. before the meeting I was praising God for being so big, so this issue seemed really small to me compared to God's size. instead of acting all ashamed after she mentioned it and pretending like it was a big issue, i just came clean like i was talking about stubbing my toe yesterday or something. everyone froze...then she said "put out your wrist"...and then she tapped it with her pen and started giggling. haha. everyone that was frozen then looked at me like "dude...how did you do that? teach me!!!" it wasn't me. it was a direct result of me being High on God. the Holy Spirit transforms the mind. but you have to be a constant user to enjoy these effects constantly. the little bit of salt that my action served as caused a chain reaction of transformation. not only did this cause some laughter, but my honesty lightened my own mood for the meeting, and it changed the dynamic for the rest of the day for my boss's boss and thus the rest of the office. jokes...movie quotes...casual side convos... all part of the day. these things are usually rare...and days are usually all serious...blah...and unproductive. today has been silly and mega-productive...working has actually been fun! thanks to a little perspective check...Jesus said, "you are the salt of the earth". get high on the Holy Spirit and be salty. laugh a little, turn on some good music, read some inspiring scripture and praise God and lighten up. transform your mind, gain the Jesus state of mind and change the world one meeting at a time. get High.