Faking Spirituality// Deceiving Oneself
I probably shouldn't share this but I guess I have to or need to for the sake of the point I wanna drive at.
So while in school today, I felt sad about not being able to make it to my last class for today.
Initially, I never planned to go to school today, I felt reluctant as to if the lectures we have today would hold.
Rushing in at di minutes to attend the class, I missed a bus that would have taken me to my campus.
I couldn't further my journey and since the other school bus took really long to load, I was late for the class and way behind time so I sadly left without going for my lectures.
Just before then, I had a few minutes to think of where else to go, I thought of visiting a friend but she wasn't picking up her phone and so I decided why not attend a midweek service in my church that is closer to school where I was.
After I made up my mind on where to go later on, I walked down to the school gate to pick a public transport to the location only for me to hear the loud noise of musical instruments playing from a distance.
I knew just which assembly that was coming from and in a flash, my mind drifted to the fact that I had once promised myself to worship in that particular assembly to know how things work over there and how they conduct their own services.
Since I haven't really been to other assemblies or denominations aside from mine, I thought it was a good chance to attend a different assembly.
So that was how I reversed my mission from going to my own church to attending another assembly whose name I wouldn't mention.
At first, I was shy to walk inside since whatever program they had had already started, so I waited for a member to walk in while I follow behind.
Luckily for me, a young guy walked in and I asked him if I could use the front or back door to go inside, he told me the back door of course. So I followed him to the back door and went inside.
And so unlike me, my spirit wasn't just feeling the place, I couldn't connect to the atmosphere, and it felt as if what I heard from outside that drew me in wasn't what I later witnessed when I finally got inside.
I was somewhat disappointed but I insisted to stay for some hours if I would be able to let loose and connect to whatever was happening there but the case was still the same.
I wasn't losing hope so I later ignored how I felt and tried my best to flow along with what was happening
A few more minutes an Artiste was called to worship or lead in a worship session, he had a great voice and started pretty well but along the line was singing horribly that even the congregation started whispering among themselves and some other people laughing and wondering what was happening, for someone who has a great singing voice to be singing off and sharping/flatting the songs, changing keys too.
I couldn't stand it either but God so help him that he rounded up and left the podium for another session which was the sermon time.
Immediately after the worship session, people started to pick up their bags and head out.
I was still baffled at what was happening but remained calm regardless.
Prayer points were raised, and so we started praying.
Still, I wasn't connected with the atmosphere, but I kept praying and then suddenly I heard the person that anchored the prayer session saying the angel of the Lord spoke to him and so he called out for anyone with a familiar name but none responded, he repeated the same thing for three times with different names saying he's been told something about those individuals with those names who are inside the auditorium but unfortunately for him, none inside bear the three different names he called.
When it felt like he was almost disappointed and would look like a fake, he called a lady at the back seated just in front of me, and started asking about her mom and what he saw concerning her mom.
The poor girl looked confused and lost, perhaps what he was saying had nothing to do with her mom.
He told the girl to talk to him but the girl didn't know or have anything to say to him.
He felt disappointed and went ahead to stop his show and started reading the scriptures and leading in prayers.
I was so disappointed myself that I couldn't help but wondered if he was a fake or something.
And honestly, I can't say for sure, it's only left for him and his God to decide if what he was actually doing was genuine or if he was only faking the show.
I am in no place to criticize or judge since I know nothing about him or what he is capable of or his gifting.
I just hoped that whatever had happened there wasn't a fake or something because I really had planned to start worshipping there some days that I don't wanna go to our assembly.
You see we don't have to joke with the things of God or spiritual matters.
It shouldn't be faked or lied about just to make the crowd baffle.
Everything concerning the spirit should be done genuinely with honesty.
For we are not deceiving God or anyone but ourselves if we try to fake spirituality.
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫
~ 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐲! 𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐀 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬.
𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 "𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞".
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐲
𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 ~
4 August 2023
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Lol, this made me laugh uncontrollably, one thing about Big spaces like that is that many people are always disconnected, I felt the same way a couple of times and had to find somewhere smaller and thank God I did, it feels much better and real here.
As for the man, that one concern am ooo 😂
Like!!! God knows I wasn't in the mood for laughs and I really pitied him at some point.
I was like, who sent him? Must he do like that? And all three names failed him making him look rather too fake😂💔😭
It is well with the righteous o
Wow... well I am not surprised by your experience because it is what I have experienced too. When I came to school, I started worshipping at a friend´s church, but for months that I have been attending, my spirit was always down. I won´t feel the vibe at all. I wondered what could be happening to me. Is the house of God not a place to clear your worries, pray to God and be happy? I left and joined another parish and this time around, I was always anticipating the next Sunday because I felt so lifted in that church.
I won´t criticise anyone but God knows His true worshipper. May God help us too.
It's sad but like you said, God knows those that are His and are His genuine and true worshippers.
Happy weekend to you