WOW!!

As most of yall know tonight was Why Jesus? and God absolutely rocked this campus. I was at the amphitheater before the masses of crowds started to flock and I had the privilage of seeing 3000 or so Clemson students file into there and have to sit on the walls and on the hill. I helped direct the alter crew and when anyone would come up to talk to me about where they needed to be, I always would get distracted by the waves of people that kept coming to Why Jesus? This in turn started to choke me up. God is so good. I always knew in the back of my mind that a ton of people were gonna show up, but it wasn’t untill I saw the entire place packed that it actually sank in that a ton of people did come.

As Jason was wrapping up the gospel message, the 40+ alter crew started to spread out around the amphitheater. When he gave the invitation for people to come forward to accept Christ, only 4 people got up. At first I was really discouraged by this but then God reminded me of Luke 15:10 He just gave me a friendly reminder that even if one person gave their life to Christ tonight, maybe that’s what the sole purpose of this event. But again He wasn’t finished doing His incredible work, as the alter call went on more and more people started to get up to talk to the alter crew. My heart started racing when I saw this, this was flippin’ awsome. “Loves like a Hurricane, I am a tree” Think about that for a sec. What are the chances that a puny tree is going to be able to get in the way of a powerful hurricane. This is excatly what was happening tonight. We all were little sapplings as the Holy Spirit came down and uprooted all of us.

Being apart of the alter crew, I knew that I had the possibility of leading some to Christ. I’m not going to lie this shook me up pretty good. I had never down anything like that before and I had no clue what I was going to say if someone asked me to lead them to Christ. Scenarios flashed through my head of someone coming up to me and me not having anything to say to them and the person just leaving frustrated. If anyone saw me in front you probably could see that my legs were about to buckle, cause of how hard I was shaking. As the altercall went on I thought that I was in the clear and wasn’t going to have to face my fears, but as usual God had a different plan. At that moment one of my friends walked up to me with her little sister. My feelings as she came up are summed up by this song;

The song opens up with these lines;

I see the city lights all around me
Everyone’s obscure
Ten million people each with their problems
Why should anyone care

Yet at the end it talks about how Jesus traded his life for us, even though we are just one in a million faces. As the two girls got to me I felt the Holy Spirit consume and as in the great words of Frank the Tank: “What happened? I blacked out”. I had nothing to worry about when praying with someone to accept Christ because it sure as heck wasn’t going to be my doing that they have eternal life, but it was going to be all the Holy Spirit using me as a vessel. After praying with her I felt so overwhelmed because it didn’t matter to me if she was the only person to give her life to Christ, because that was enough for me.

God is moving throughout the campus of Clemson and has so much in store for us over the next few years. This was only the start of a plan that is being unravelled piece by piece. All we are called to do is be obedient to God’s word and follow His plan, he’ll work out the rest. I pray that each one of us stays on fire over this summer and come back ready to rock Clemson even more.

In His loving name
Kit (note this one is done before 3am Cha-Ching)

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