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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Don't Get Tipped Off Balance
"' so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
good work." (v.17)
-- For reading & meditation: 2 Timothy 3:16-4:5
We look now at another argument advanced by those who see the issue
of revival as unnecessary and irrelevant. It goes like this:
"Encouraging people to believe for a revival serves only to make them
spiritually discontent. They become so preoccupied with praying in a
revival (which happens only infrequently) that they fail to get on
with the task at hand." I have some sympathy for this argument as I
too have been concerned for years over those Christians who talk a
lot about a coming revival but avoid the day-to-day responsibilities
of Christian living. Many years ago, when I was a minister in Wales,
I knew a church whose leaders believed that they should cancel all
their activities and hold a prayer meeting every evening of the week
until God sent revival to their community. Once committed to this
seemingly spiritual but rather misguided idea, they simply had to
keep going. They continued holding prayer meetings every evening for
over a year, after which the congregation were so tired and
bewildered they were obliged to call a halt. The church has never
recovered to this day. Think of all the opportunities the church
missed in evangelism and outreach because they had an unbalanced view
of the subject of revival. They thought they were being guided, but
they failed to see that their commitment to pray every evening until
revival came was more an obsessive demand than a deep spiritual
desire. When the issue of revival becomes an obsession that tips us
off our spiritual balance then there is something seriously wrong.
PRAYER:
O Father, help me differentiate between the demands that arise out of
my own nature and the spiritual desires which arise out of Your inner
prompting. For I see that one is an open road; the other a
cul-de-sac. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Luke 11:1-13; 2 Chron. 7:14; Deut. 4:29; Isa. 55:6
1. What is promised to those who sincerely seek?
2. How did Jesus illustrate this?
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