Drunk in the Spirit

[votivesoul]

Experiencing great joy and celebrating that joy through praise and adoration of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ is of course expected, and natural.

I have danced before the Lord until exhausted, shouted myself hoarse, and clapped until my hands were swollen, but I never once lost control of my being or faculty sufficient to say I was "drunk in the Spirit".

I think sometimes we give our control away and act in ways that the Bible does not prescribe, and attribute to the Holy Spirit. God is not a marionetter pulling our strings. We need to be active, conscious participants in what God is doing in, through, or to, us.

To say God just takes control and does whatever He wants with us without our active, conscious--AND IN CONTROL--participation creates an association I am not comfortable creating.