Don’t you love how God show’s up when you least expect it? This last Wednesday was that way.
For the last 11 days I had been in Rochester, MN at Mayo Clinic. My dad had a major surgery you can read about it here. After sleeping 8 nights in the hospital room in a blue reclino chair, it’s fair to say I was ready to be home. On Wednesday at 5:30 AM, what I like to call the butt crack of dawn, I started my journey home. I drove hard, only stopping once to get gas in Kansas City and grab some cheetos and a bottled water. After 10 hours, I WAS HOME.
My boys smiled from ear to ear when I walked through the door and my wife was the hottest I’ve ever seen her. Finally, home to my family.
It hit me right when I walked through the door, “Jon, you didn’t get anyone to cover you for worship tonight with the youth. DUMMY!” For 2 hours I contimplated calling my team leaders and bailing on them. As much as I wanted to stay home and just rest, I also wanted to experience God with my 180remix peeps.
So I put on my game face and went to church. Ran through rehearsal thinking, “Jon, you are so tired. What are you doing?” Went to preservice prayer thinking, “Jon, you are almost done. Just get through this.” Then as I led the first song I was thinking, “These kids are just as tired as I am.”
Then something hit me, something stronger than me, something bigger than me, something I had to respond to. God was in the room.
His presence feel hard and heavy. I was in awe of my God and what He had done for me, my family, my dad in this season. I became an ambassador for worshiping God through life’s crap. I had broken through my selfish poo and was experiencing the King of Kings.
God hit me Wednesday night “when I least expected it.” I love that God does that. Has that happened to you recently? Comment here.
Last night the ONEband (our youth/young adult worship team) came together to celebrate a huge “W”. Two weeks ago our team led worship for over 1,200 students at Genesis Conference. We witnessed God do some amazing things in thousands of lives. The worship was nothing short of incredible, some of the most passionate, intimate worship I’ve ever been a part of.
After every great “W” there needs to be a moment of reflection and kick butt celebration.
Here’s how we did it…
We destroyed 3 of Ed Walker’s 5 lb. burgers last night. Not a crumb left.
Ok, it’s been waaaaaaay to long. In September I took a new role on staff here at HT. I’m now the Creative Media Director. I’ll be honest with you, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. For all those creative media peeps who are also worship peeps….I pray a special multiplication blessing over your sleep.
My calling is worship, my heart is to see life change. So I took an opportunity to help my church create life change in a larger capacity. I like to think this was a chivalrous act, setting aside my wants and desires to let my life be used by God is a bigger way. In just five months I’ve been stretched in ridiculous ways, my creativity has hit brick walls, and my schedule has looked me in the face and laughed at me…BUT some really great things are in progress.
“You will only grow to the threshold of your pain.”
My blog will be taking on a new focus. I will only be blogging on creativity in media and worship. My wife has started our family blog HERE and there is something coming that will be really cool I’m working on with our HTcreative team.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for the new and improved TheJonMorris.com.