At the Gathering last night, the pastor gave a great sermon. We were comparing our love for God to a Coldplay concert. Let me explain:

The pastor talked about how he went to "the greatest of all concerts this fall" (which is debatable but that's for later). He started texting his friends to hang it over their heads that he was at the concert. After they stopped texting him, he moved on to texting people who were at the show to see who had better seats. At the end of the show, he found out that one of his friends was "close enough to smell the band". (It smelled of Irish Spring apparently.) We love getting as close as we possibly can to celebrities, right?

Why can't we be the same way about God? Why can't we want to get close enough to God to be able to smell him? We wouldn't pass up front row to Coldplay, so why should we pass up front row to God?

Just a thought.