Will We Stand Here and Play While the Whole Generation Fades Away?
I'm feeling very sad but yet somehow hopeful. I've been back at school for 2 weeks now and i feel kind of dejected that i'm not praying enough or doing enough. Looking at the culture, the fashion, the language, i just feel that there's still so much to pray for and cry out for. But who am i fooling when i myself couldn't get down on my knees in the middle of the night to pray.
I feel like i'm too radical in some ways, probably it's the influx of sermons about holiness and purity and repentance and revivals and discipline. I'm moved by what i see and i've resolved that i wont sit by and do nothing while the generation fades away, unloved, untouched, unchanged by God. Oh how i wish i know of people that have this resolution that i may pray together with them. Honestly, i'm tired of stirring people up, only God can give the desire and yet if men wouldn't be in that state to want that desire then what's the point? I'm happy enough that they get to heaven and to love them with the love of God. I'll just leave the stirring to God from now onwards.
I guess many of us took up the mentality of thinking that God can do everything by His own. He could, in all His majesty and power, He could turn the world from their wicked ways and to serve Him. But what about men? Point me out if i am wrong. The bible is filled with men and women of God that are always in action. He would always work through man to proclaim and to act. I guess we'll never see the days of Acts again unless we start getting into action, to pray and to seek the face of God daily in our precious time with Him (which seems so little).
If we want God to move then we must first be moved. Like Wai Yin once said, God can wait for you to eventually come back to Him, but the generation CANNOT wait. I pray that God's grace be upon us to move us closer to Him first and that the Holy Spirit to move us to desire the things of God more than the things of the world.
"Therefore prepare you minds for ACTION, keep SOBER in spirit, fix your hope COMPLETELY on the GRACE to be brought to you at the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST." 1Peter 1:13 (caps mine.)
Have you made your resolution?
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