Excitement!!

What are we excited about? Is there really anything that we are just totally jacked about? Tonight was the opening night for FCA at Anderson University and it was rockin!! The topic of the night, EXCITEMENT, went well with the attitude of the crowd. There were tons of people there, jumping, singing, worshipping.......and being hypocrits. You say, well what were they doing that causes them to be a hypocrit? They were there!!! Last year as a Freahman, my roommate and I went to the first FCA of the school year. Just as tonight there was a packed crowd, but as we began to go more and more the crowd began to grow less and less. Yeh, everyone was excited tonight, why shouldn't we be? We haven't been here long enough to become swamped with tests, assignments, pressure of the college life, and don't forget enough time to have the always enjoyed roommate controversy!! So again I ask, what are we really excited about? I can say from experience that in a month, there want be half the people at FCA that were there tonight. Someone we'll be asked, "hey, you want to go to FCA tonight?" and the response will be, "Nah, im sorry I got a big anatomy test tomorrow!" Then one month later you get this from the same person who turned you down about FCA. "Hey, you want to go to the Rascal Flatts concert Thursday?" then your reply is, "I thought you had an Algebra test on Friday." ..."Yeh, I do but I've already studied!" We see this kind of stuff happen all the time. You ask, well why were they able to study ahead for the Rascal Flats concert but not FCA. It's simple, THEY ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE CONCERT!!!! Sure everyone can come and get excited when the times are perfect, but who can do it when they're swamped up to their eye balls. Who is that excited about God, that they can serve him when the time is rough? You can't be a sucessful follower of Christ, if you'r only going to be excited for him in the Good times. Re. 3:16 "So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth." Basically either get excited for me or get unexcited, but don't sit on the fence. I am so very thankful that God doesn't pick and choose the days in which he loves and forgives us. Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Gods purpose is for those that profess his name, be JACKED UP about him, and tell others about his greatness!! If we stay EXCITED for God, as he calls us to do, he will give us the abdundent life he promises in John 10:10, "I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly." When this is accomplished, the struggles and the trials will reduce to merely shadows!