I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

I thought of this because of Jonathan and Zechariah's posts over at Ambassadors of Christ and because of Andy's post over at Mile From The Beach. How many of us have felt this way after finding Jesus? And in America, how many of us have still been looking for something despite our good, Christian background which should have given us everything we need and because of which we shouldn't be looking for anything? Yet look at us! Ridden with infidelity and divorce, drug addiction and obesity, greed and gambling addiction, to name a few.

How many people do you know who do not have a deep experience of love? An experience of the love of God? Do you even have a strong frame of reference of the love of God yourself from which to decide what this is? And before we talk about the enemies of God, and decide who they are, we need to determine that first by whether or not certain people have truly rejected God or if they have never actually had an opportunity to know God, even in a country like ours. It is possible to be isolated from the truth in America. Despite our Christian heritage, we have a strong need for revival, is what I am saying. And like my good friend Burt Rosenberg has said, you can't have the re-vive without the vive! We may not have ever had the vive!

We have had plenty of good principles, rules, regulations, hellfire sermons, traditions, hard work and good people, but I'm not so sure we have had a strong revelation of the love of God and the grace of God. We're good at being good and at working hard at being good, but we aren't so good at letting go and letting God.

I pray we'd truly find what we have been looking for.....

OK. My mom has just informed me that I forget that America has had revivals - the Azusa street revival in the L.A. area, and the charismatic renewal of the 70's. It's just that these times of refreshing are so long away that it seems as if they never happened. So, we have had the vive. Let's have the revive!