Not A God of Moments

I am sitting here in "Sanctuary" the regular Sunday night praise and worship chapel led by the chapel interns at my School.
Here's the thing as I sit here with music being played, with eyes closed, hands and voices raising high God leads me to two thoughts.
1) He is not a God of moments
2) we are the same in this as we are any other time.
First we need to understand that God is not a God of moments. He works in moments but He is not a God of feeling, or simply just emotion. Faith in Him is not just a living from one mountain top spiritual high to the next. Of course this is a regular occurrence in Christianity, and I must admit I am so guilty of it as well! But this is a life style of lies created by Satan. Yes we are filled by the Spirit at certain times, the doors in certain occasions are more open then others. But He does not only just work then... I fully believe and know (because there has been life experience and Biblical proof) that God works even more in the "low points" of our lives!
This then goes into my second thought. That we are the same in this "moment" as we were before we walked in, and as we walk out. I find it strange that a lot of times people walk out of Spirit led services, bible studies, and conferences and then go right back into the same sinful retinues, hobbies and habits (again I am so guilty of this as well!). I find it kind of ironic that we stand and sit with arms lifted high, eyes closed, saying "Amen" and all the other Christian responders words and then when we walk away from such an empowering from God just give up once people start noticing we are Christians.
I have worked with youth and in youth ministry for 6 years now, and countless times kids have come to me and said, "Nathan you are so encouraging, I wish I had your faith, I want what you have, how can you do it?".... and here's the thing there is really nothing different from them and me, other then age, and maybe if they are a girl... but I am a human, I struggle, I fail, I screw up (so much!!), I go threw daily battles emotionally, mentally, spiritually and sometimes physically. So what am I doing different? Well I am not doing anything... its God that does something!
You see when we walk away from our "mountiantop" Spirit experiences and go back into the crappy, sinful lost world we live in we have to let God do His thing and have the lead in our life. I think a lot of the "valley" feelings we get and the discouragement that happens is due to not letting God completely in. And also understand that Satan really will never lean you alone. I have said it so many times, but Satan does not care one bit that you are Christian, he could care less. He (Satan) starts caring when you lwt God have complete control! Absolute power. This is when Satan grows afraid and starts doing all he can in his fear.
So heres the thong God will never take away your problems, issues, struggles, pain or sin... what would be the good of that? God is not a magic genie in a bottle that you rub with prayer... He is not a magic wand that you wave over your life to fix all your problems. He is also not a old mean man who leaves you alone also. No God rather walks with you in this life! He walks with you as you go through this world, as you go through your struggles, your problems and sin.
So as I walk away out of this chapel and start a new week of readings, lectures, notes, and Satan's temptation I would challenge not only you but also myself of Moses. You see Moses would spend days even weeks solely with God on Mnt.Sinai, and when he would come down he came back countless times to a people who turned away from God to a golden Calf, who complained, and who ultimately caused him to never reach the promised land himself. Moses litrally came down from a mountain top of God's Spirit into a valley of lost, broken, confused, sinful people. But yet Moses never lost faith in God or His promises, he struggled, he had hard and difficult times... but never lost faith.
So let us all be challenged to make a decision, and a declaration and be a generation from this point on of Moses people who walk away from the mountain top into the valley but no matter what never loose hope or faith in Him!