Sometimes
we turn our wonderful God-experience into a badge of spirituality. We
wear it down everybody else's nose, “Look at how spiritual I am!”
We might even start feeling superior to our pastor. “After all, he
hasn't had the experiences with God that I have.”
The
experience was meant to bring us greater healing and into greater
intimacy with our Lover-King. But we just lost any intimacy we gained
the moment we started bragging about it. Pride cannot live in the
presence of the Living God. That's why Satan was thrown out of
Heaven.
When
we do this, we become the hypocrites in Matthew 5, who “have
received their reward in full.” Their reward was that single moment
of glory before people. Hope they enjoyed; no eternal reward from
God.
It's
really sad to trade the eternal for the temporary.
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