Unlike anything in this world ... 
Hope you don’t mind me reposting, but truly inspired and uplifted by the fellowship I experienced this weekend. And you put my feelings perfectly into words :)
“There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to one hope when you were called - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”Ephesians 4:4-6
I go to McMaster University. This week, a friend and sister in Christ came into town from Western University. We barely knew each other, technically speaking - I’d only met her twice in my life, and neither time for very long. In fact, she’d even forgotten who I was the second time we met. So it was surprising how we treated one another this time.
As soon as she first walked through the doors into my house, we clicked. Over MCAT studying, over Disney songs and recording stuff, over mutual friends, and over the two memories we had of one another in person. It was like we’d been good friends for a long time.
Moreover, that night, she popped by my house to chat/chill with me and my housemate. The three of us had an amazing bonding time during which we shared our testimonies and some stories of how Christ had worked in our lives. We sought words of knowledge from the Spirit and edified one another with those words, and we lifted one another in prayer. We were probably in that room for about four hours after midnight.
And this was my third time meeting her. This was my housemate’s first time meeting her.
See, the point of what I’m writing here is to ascribe immense wonder at how all this was possible. We were little more than mere strangers, separated by considerable distance and by emotional unfamiliarity. Yet, when I asked my housemate what he thought of the night after she left, he said (after a pause of thinking), “That was true fellowship.”
In Christ, I am learning (and delighting in the fact) that I belong to a global family of Christ-followers, of sons and daughters of the living God, and that this family is united by bonds of love that cannot be seen or explained by anything physical in this world. It cannot be explained by anything philosophical or religious outside of the amazing power of Christ’s reconciliation provided through the cross and His resurrection.
Fellowship has no bounds. It is not separated by distance or unfamiliarity. And you can’t experience it in any other way without Christ. There is simply nothing else in this world that can unite people together so deeply and quickly as the cross of Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter if you and another person share a favourite sports team in common, or a humanitarian cause, or even a family bloodline; nothing - no one - unites like Jesus.
And for all you brothers and sisters in the Lord out there who haven’t experienced this wonderful truth, and the giddy feeling that comes with it, I’m telling you now - there’s no feeling like it. Nothing excites me the same way as does the thought of meeting a total stranger for the first time and being able to bond and connect with him/her over our mutual Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. You feel untouchable, totally and unabashedly free, loved in unexpected ways by unexpected people, immensely encouraged, and reminded of the hope and joy that eternal life brings. It’s unlike anything in this world.
Thanks for coming into town, yangster :)
