The
title of this blog entry seems obvious. But often, when we have a
awesome experience of closeness to God, especially if we get healing
or touched in some physical way, it's tempting to try and impose our
experience on everyone else. In our zeal, we make a doctrine out of
our experience. But God gave that experience to us and for us.
Yes,
everyone needs to experience God, but everyone's experience will be
different. The rest of the world doesn't need our experience; they
need their own.
It's
one of the enemy's favorite tricks. If he can't stop God from coming
close by deceiving us into resisting, then he'll go to the other
extreme and try to deceive us to worship the experience, instead of
the One we're experiencing.
When
he can do that, he can get us to turn our experience into a doctrine
that everyone else needs. Then the experience that was meant to bring
us closer to God becomes a club to bludgeon the rest of the body of
Christ with.
So
let's not be fooled. Tell the enemy to go pound sand – he's not
pulling that one on us. We will respect and honor the experience of
others just as much as our own.
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