Launch Letdown

Man, I have felt behind the entire week. Can I be honest here? Ever have one of those weeks where you just felt you couldn't get the ball rolling? It's not that you weren't working hard but it just doesn't seem like your work was producing anything. I take pride in the fact that we work HARD at our office. I've had times in ministry where I just wanted to get by. That is not the case here. We want to do things with excellence and pour all of our energy in the Sunday morning worship experience. We try to take Fridays off and work Sunday - Thursday. This week just seemed like we'd come off the mountain top experience. We were prepared and excited for Sunday and God did not disappoint. By Wednesday of this week I felt like we had accomplished nothing. We were working, and tasks were being accomplished but it felt weird. Anyway, it's days like this we need to remember that God doesn't want us to stay on the mountain top, but to use the mountain top experience to get through the valley. Another Sunday is coming and I trust it will be a mountain top as well. We poured ALL our energy and then some for months into last Sundays launch service. It's only natural to "feel" the letdown. Much of Monday and Tuesday I was still trying to wrap my brain around what happened Sunday. When Jesus took his inner circle (Peter, James and John) up the mountain where the transfiguration took place (Matthew 17:1-13) he was changed/morphed before them. Peter blurted out "THIS IS AWESOME! Let's build shelters and stay here" (my words). But Jesus said "Get up. Lets go back down the mountain". Then when Jesus ascended (Acts 1) into Heaven after his resurrection it says the disciples where standing there staring to Heaven. Two white-robed men suddenly appeared and said "Why are you staring into heaven?" In other words "Get down the mountain and start working". It may not feel the same, or be the same but it's just as important. May God help us to come down the mountain and work toward that next mountain top experience. Because we've been on the mountain with God, we can work through the valley.