MiConfession

I remember like it was yesterday – a close friend invited me to a ‘party’. The people there were singing, shouting and dancing to the music with abandon. They seemed to be full of something. In my eyes, they looked utterly foolish and totally out of control – they appeared “High”. (Acts 2:15)

While I sat there and worried about them stepping on my shoes with all their whooping and hollering I was thinking, “it don’t take all that, and whatever they are taking I am pretty sure I do not want it.”

Yet, the experience made me curious. Before the ‘whooping,’ the people there appeared to be in their right mind so I started to ponder,”…maybe there’s something to this?” So, I started searching the word for myself, seeking to understand what getting “High” was all about. (II Corinthians 3:14 – 18)

In all my searching, I could not help but recall that those at the ‘party’ appeared to be transported beyond their worries. They seemed so ‘free.’ As time went on and life continued to happen all around me, I started to think that just maybe the price the ‘partier’s paid for looking ‘ridiculous’ was worth the reward, the “High”. (Proverbs 4:5 – 7)

I became hungry for, I knew not what, but I KNEW there MUST be more – because they demonstrated that there was ‘more’. (John 7:38 – 39)

A few months after attending that ‘party’ a different friend invited me to another ‘party’. Since I was still searching (still hungry), I agreed to go and I hoped that maybe this time I’d get a little “High” too. But, my expectation was that I would be able to maintain my dignity when I received my “High”. I mean, who really likes looking foolish?

So, when we arrived at this ‘party’ I noticed that it started pretty much like the other one, e.g., singing, shouting, dancing, etc. As happened in the first ‘party,’ the Word of God was preached. I knew what to expect – but this time I was expecting I would also get “High”. There was a blissful, peaceful surrender on the faces of those around me and it made me “hungry”. (Matthew 5:6)

I wanted what they were having! The ‘party’ was almost over and I did not have what they had – I was so ‘hungry’. I no longer cared if I looked foolish, if I retained my dignity – I needed everything God had for me and if I had to look ‘foolish’ in my own eyes to receive it, so be it! I surrendered myself to His will. (II Samuel 6:14 – :21)

So, I cried out in my heart (it was not audibly stated but it was an inward prayer, a longing – a shout in my head – “Father, don’t let me leave here without a touch from you…”) and at that moment I was given/gifted the same “High”. (Luke 11:13)

God did not disappoint!

As soon as I asked Jesus and surrendered my will to GOD, I felt heat move through my body – starting at my hands. My arms and hands started trembling and I was “High” for the first time in my life! Truly abandoned in the Lord – joy you can not explain. (Matthew 3:11, Acts 2:1 – 4, 10:44 – :45, I Peter 1:8)

I am “High for Life”  – Holy Spirit – High!!! (Psalm 55:22)