My Passion 2022 Experience
I’ve tried to find the words to talk about an experience I had early in January. And I can’t promise you it’ll be completely explained, I just need to share it with you.
It seems like being invited to visit my family in America is always a synonym of God showing up for me. My brother and his wife invited me over for the Holidays. And I had this feeling that God had something to show me during these times.
It should then not be a surprise when I say, I went.
The first thing I experienced there was just peace and rest. Believe it, despite the semester full of nothing to do and even less of what I wanted, I needed to rest. So, I got to do that.
The second thing I experienced was not planned. I was offered to go to the Passion Conference, which finished right before my flight back to Toronto. A day and an evening surrounded by university and college students from all around the world - literally, 41 countries were represented, without including the people online - who wanted to hear from God.
What I really knew was that “big names” of the Christian world would be sharing the Word and “big names” of the worship world would be there, leading us during these thirty-six hours. For the rest, I decided to leave it up to God. Because I knew no one attending, and no one knew me, apart from God. I was aware that a group I really appreciate was going to intervene at a moment or another, and I was really looking forward to it, looking forward to hearing them live and in person.
But then, it all started. My feelings were mixed as I knew some songs (aka the first one and then the rest was a little mixed up), but I was thinking so much about all the people I wanted to share this time with. It took me a minute to disconnect from the rest of the world and realize the exceptional opportunity I had to be there, standing with no less than fifty-five thousand people in that stadium.
I couldn’t describe the entirety of what happened, because between what really happened and what I learned and experienced, that was just a lot.
As I am writing, I am re-listening the recordings. And this is what I am realizing.
I believe that God had set this whole time apart for me for one thing: to remind me that He is Holy. That’s something that has been repeated during this conference. And I faced, with my own eyes, in my own body, the importance of God’s holiness in my life.
We heard a message dedicated to it, we sang the Revelation Song (By Kari Jobe), confronted to God’s holiness. I was faced with how perfect, magnificent, holy God is.
I can’t stress this enough, but I believe that this is something that is extremely important.
We and I do too, talk so much about God’s love that we forget His holiness.
And I think this is THE thing that changed the rest of my experience at Passion. The rest of my life.
I can’t wake up without thinking about God’s holiness. About what it requires for me to serve a holy God.
I just want to add something really quickly, because I believe I’ve already said a lot.
When I got back home, my roommates told me they missed me. Then, I tested positive for COVID, and I had to isolate, avoid them in the common areas to make sure they’d be safe. I got out today - the day I am writing this testimony-, and one of my roommates told me she missed me.
Can you imagine, if I had completely lived striving for holiness, how much more powerful the testimony of my life would be? I think that it would completely change the life of the people around me.
I’m done! I’ll let you think about it!
Until next time,
Do