MercyMe concert

I had the opportunity to take my leadership team to the mercyme concert last Sunday for our Christmas party. It was a good time of fellowship and MercyMe provided a great opportunity for a worship experience. But unfortunately I sat in front a a group of rude, selfish people. As soon as i sat down i knew that this was going to be a rough seat. they were talking loudly through the opening band, trying to squeeze in and out of their isle...just annoying.

As soon as MercyMe came out everyone stood up, so i stood up. No more than 30 seconds later 2 ladies behind me taped me on the shoulder and asked if i could switch seats with my wife because they couldn’t see. here’s my problem with this...

1. i’m extremely self conscious about blocking peoples views and generally try my best to stay in the back or off to the side so i don’t block a view.
2. If i switched with my wife, i would be blocking the view for other people in their row.

So i just grabbed my coat and moved to an open area where no one was behind us for a couple rows. As the concert continued, the entire crowd sat down like a set of dominos. But some of us still wanted to stand up, so we did. then someone from behind us began yelling to sit down and then he actually came and told the guys next to us to sit down. This just added to my frustration and bitterness.

so i sat there during the entire concert trying to figure out what i wanted to say to these ladies that were originally behind me and asked me to move. I wanted them to feel bad for feeding into my insecurity.

Then out of the blue i get a text from 2 of my students who were at the concert with their grandma. one of them wanted to talk and didn’t want me to leave. She wanted to get saved. So i met them in the lobby and talked briefly, prayed with them and gave the young lady some scripture verses to read and what i’d like to see as her next steps might be.

as i walked back to our van, i started to chuckle at God because he knew what i wanted to do and he knew that if He didn’t intercede, i would say something and then regret it later.

All of this to say that God IS Good and He still cares about me.