Written by: M.T.
Have you ever had the feeling that something ‘big’ is going to happen?
I felt that the day of Concert of Praise.
On Thursday, November 12th, InterVarsity held their annual Concert of Praise in the SAC Auditorium. The room was aflame with passion; people praised in an array of ways. From spoken word to body worship to arms stretched to the ceiling and embracing the Holy Spirit – His presence was simply inescapable.
“It was inspirational,” my agnostic suitemate said to me the next day. “I really felt something there.”
God moved seemingly immobile hearts that night. God revealed Himself to those who needed it the most. I was in awe that my non-Christian suite showed up in the first place – but to find them feeling God’s grace was more than I could even fathom.
Then again, He always blesses us in abundance, doesn’t He?
Prior to the concert, I – along with many members of InterVarsity – spent the day in fasting and prayer. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I needed to focus on the night to come. I needed to detach myself from the stressors that plague me daily. God will deliver me, I kept telling myself. And as the day progressed with droning professors and lectures scant of substance, “This is a night for the Lord,” I prayed mentally. “This is the night for the campus to know.”
This was the night for the campus to know.
The SAC Auditorium welcomed people from all walks of faith and all paths of life: people who penned poems to perform on train rides, people who used to do drugs, people who used to think that there was no way there was a God. And even people that still did before COP.
But as the night tapered down, we all found ourselves united. Staff worker Jainnie Hackman invited people to the front of the auditorium to submit themselves – their worries, their woes, the obstacles they believed they couldn’t overcome. “Give it up to God,” she said. And in a matter of minutes, the whole room was up on stage.
With spirits lifted and praises on high,
People from IV, BASIC, CCF, my suite, someone’s Chem class, someone working at the SAC –
People: all kinds. God’s children: all kinds.
We all linked hands.
We all lifted hearts.
We all loved God – and felt His love back.
