VIPs

the Lord has been opening up a friend of mine's wallet and He has been blessing it like crazy.  she went to the hillsong united concert last week in atlanta and she felt like the Lord was telling her to buy a ticket for a woman who takes her to church, so she asked her if she wanted to go.  the woman said yes, and madden (my friend) went early to buy tickets.  the lady at the ticket window handed her the tickets and said "i'm going to throw these wristbands in too."  madden thought they were the kind of thing you wear for decoration, and she and the lady were joking about wearing them on the way over.  as they got into the venue, they met someone who was working that the lady knew.  after chatting, the girls asked him about the wristbands and he said they were VIP wristbands and would get them front row seats.  they had lawn tickets and it was raining, so this was a huge blessing.  they went up and actually ended up standing in front of the security.  they were close enough to touch the stage.

this might be a silly analogy, but so often i feel like that's how we live.  we are given VIP wristbands.  we are allowed to be close enough to the Lord to know his voice, even his thoughts.  but instead we sit out in the rain choosing to watch from behind the scenes.  we're a royal priesthood, VIPs of the Most High God, all we have to do is walk up to the front and listen.