Eternity Over Yonder

It's becoming more and more clear that the Christian church is living in ways that makes God cry (if He could). But we seem to just live in sin thinking God will forgive, and also forgive the sins we commit in the near future. So many believer's, but so little change! God forgive us for thinking this way! What has happened to being transformed by the power of the Gospel? People are being saved, but still living like this world?

The Church is in a desperate state! The church of today needs a Revival! That she would be transformed for the Power of the Holy Spirit. That we would draw our hearts to God and not satan! Pray before we play with this world. Call me a radical, but the church needs to be real and not fake. Do we really care about the lost? When was the last time you shared the Gospel with someone?

I've been reading this book titled "Why Revival Tarries". This book was written way before I came to be, but seems to still ring true in our modern world today. God forgive us for not living Spirit filled lives. Christan's today care about as much for the lost soul, as the lost themselves care about themselves. Everyday people are being tossed into eternal hell and you would think no one cares, not even God's household. Sad, but true.

Maybe it's time to live life as if Jesus was standing next to you every step of our days! Maybe then we would think twice about the shows we watch on TV, the movies we rent, the nasty things that come from our hearts and flow out of the mouth. Maybe then we would fear God and obey His Word? If your faith has not changed you, then it would be fair to say it's not going to save you. It's like the quote "what would Jesus do", and I'm sure it's not what we as the Church are doing today.

In the book Harnack defined Christianity as "a very simple but very sublime thing: To live in time and for eternity under the eye of God and by His help."

Ravenhill continues by saying "Oh that believers would become eternity-conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat, if we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat - then we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls."

We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin! It is passing strange that we are so "simple" as to believe that the Church is presenting to men the New Testament standard of Jesus by such a substandard of Christian living.

Why does revival tarry? The answer is simple enough - because evangelism is so highly commercialized.

Revival tarries because of cheapening the Gospel.

Keep pressing, Keep praying, Keep doing church in the shadow of the Cross!

Maybe it's time to turn our eyes to Jesus. Christ wants first place in our lives and He rightly deserves it! I think once we live with eternal things in mind, it will change the way we think and also live. Are you ready for the judgment seat of Christ if death were to come over you today? Are you ready to meet Him?

Have a great week. Thanks for stopping by.