experiencing God's presence to Uh oh!

About a week ago or so, I was doing my normal bible reading and I came across this part in Mark that I really liked and reminded me of something. I have the Life Application Bible with all of the handy dandy notes that really help me out a lot and make many connections that I might not always see. I was reading Mark 9 that has the story of the Transfiguration that James, John, and Peter saw and it also has when Jesus healed a demon-possessed boy. Okay so, what I didn't really think about was how James, John, and Peter all were experiencing God's presence. I mean, God was definitely there and God even opened up the heavens and told the disciples that Jesus was His beloved son. Then, after this experience of God's presence, the disciples transfered into the 'real world.' They went straight from experiencing God's presence to facing evil, or the demon-possessed boy. That has got to be tough. It could be from going to an awesome conference over the summer to going back to an awful home life. What it reminded me of most was of going to camp and then coming back home. I know so many people that experience this awesome summer of camp where they experience God's presence. But once they get home and experience the evil around them, they fall in. They disregard everything they learned over the summer and go straight back to drinking, to swearing, to having sex etc. Something that stuck out to me the most was how throughout the God experience and the evil experience, Jesus was always with them. I just wish that people from my camp or anyone who has experienced something like awesome God experience to bad experience would realize that Jesus is always with them. Hello out there! Yeah! He is! And do you know how Jesus got rid of the evil?! Yep! He prayed. When we deal with situations like this, we can pray; we can read God's word; we can talk to God; we can write to God; we can do whatever we need to do to stay close to God in hard times. I guess the point of me writing this out is because I want to be able to share this with all of the campers at my camp this summer. I'm thinking of maybe trying to hold one of the devotions for the Leadership Development Campers and trying to drill into their heads that it's not impossible! And everything is possible with God! (Mark 10:27) And I thought it would be nice to share this even though most of you probably already now this. Maybe you can now get some of the handy dandy connections brought to you by my Life Application Bible.