People get really excited when God shows up. Maybe they get too excited and its really not God at all? Anyway when God’s omni presence turns into manifested presence, stuff can truly happen. It’s amazing though how quickly any semblence of a move of God can be made into a formula, the building of a monument as a remembrance, or the establishment of a sacred cow.
The problem with sacred cows though is that you always have to wind up killing them because God just simply doesn’t like us worshipping anything but Him. Go agaist one though and people will treat you as though you have been infected with mad cow disease and you’re the one that gets killed.
More often than not, when I feel His presence, there’s more brokenness than excitement. Sure there are times I can barely contain myself (and don’t). Could it be maturity? 
Too many future generations wind up worshipping at alters that have gone cold, worshipping relics (can you say small statutes), traditions, and events of the past, Take a look at most any calendar and you’ll see what I’m referring to- especially a Catholic calendar. Hey, I love Catholics; but, you can have all those calendar dates. Too much to remember!
As Robert Lund said, “When something that God did in the past becomes a badge that we wear, and further becomes a weapon we wield against a current work of God, we begin to be like the Pharisees.” Yep! Stick which that which is NOW while not forsaking that which once was. The Bible is a record of what His people felt He said to them; however, the rhema now Word is far more instructive and beneficial. It might even save your life.
I’m not mad, just one of those I Samuel 6 cows headed to God, lowing as I go!
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