God intoxicated

The world says the only way to have fun is to be drunk  on wine.  God says the only way to posses joy is to be drunk on life in the spirit.  Friends toast the spirit of the age and they sip to the appetites of the world.  But the chalice of God's Spirit is not to be sipped but is to be drunk deeply of this sacramental communion.

The world does not hesitate to drink fully of fleshly desires.  Why do we hesitate to drink fully of the heavenly wine of life?  Nothing fills the soul with sweet gladness more than entering into the wondrous presence of God through contemplative prayer.  When this happens, the fire of God's love burns away the pollution of the world and deflates our world of pride and self.

The world tries to intoxicate us with the inflation of self.  The world says the only thing worth occupying is yourself.  When we meditate and contemplate God, we lose ourselves in God and the whole world becomes a holy sacrament.  The deeper we become God intoxicated, the greater heaven comes to reside in us on earth.  The more we are crushed by God beneath all things, the more spiritually we will arise far above all things.

(I wrote these words two weeks ago in my spiritual journal while I was on a cruise to Mexico with my family.  These words are especially relevant to me today as I write them down here because today I was God intoxicated with another wonderful brother in the Lord.  We were simply walking down the hallway and suddenly the Holy Spirit came powerfully upon us.  God's Word about not being drunk on wine but on His Spirit resonates even more with me today)