At our Men of the Word Bible study, we’re wrapping up our reading and discussion of Jungle Pilot, the biography of missionary Nate Saint.  The five month (so far) journey through his life story has blessed, encouraged, challenged, and even sometimes convicted me.  This week, a line from a letter he wrote to his parents during the 1955 Christmas season, a mere three weeks before he and his four missionary companions were killed by the Auca Indians, got my attention and hasn’t let go.  In considering the humble, yet glorious coming of our Lord to Bethlehem, Nate wrote, “Shame on us for getting so used to the story that we fail to get those goose pimples when we contemplate such incomprehensible condescension.”  It’s easy, isn’t it?  If we’re not careful, it’s easy for the gospel story to become routine, drying up the tears of joy or making those spiritual goose bumps disappear.  We sing “Amazing Grace” without truly feeling amazed.  Or “I Love to Tell the Story” without having told anyone lately.  Perhaps, “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” while we worry ourselves sick about our circumstances.  I could go on, but I think you get the point.  I understand that not every devotional time or church service will be a “Heaven-came-down-glory-hallelujah-shoutin’-mountaintop” experience.  But I do know that if we loose that thrill, that wonder, those goose bumps for any length of time, we’re heading in the wrong direction.  When was the last time the thought of your salvation, the goodness of your God, or the glorious promise of Heaven brought a tear to your eye or a shout of joy to your soul?  When was the last time you got some genuine Holy Ghost given spiritual goose bumps?  Like Nate said, if we get used to not having them, “Shame on us!”  It’s time for us to revisit Psalm 147:1 that reminds us, “Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.”