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Something has been on my mind ever since I read and reviewed Jeff Steele’s book "We Want America Back". Jeff states that in the past forty years our nation has changed for the worse. I started thinking about those forty years. Then it dawned on me that it was forty years that the children of Israel roamed in the wilderness. It took that long to get all the doubt and unbelief out of the minds of God’s people. Forty years, that’s what it has taken to get rid of the Faith of the American people. Forty years ago in America "Laugh In" was considered a "racy" TV program. They now show that very same program to our children on Nickelodeon. Forty years ago abortion was considered a sin. We have come a long way in forty years. As I look around us, I see that the younger generation does not understand why Christians should be taking a stand against the murder of innocent babies, or an alternate lifestyle. Don’t worry; I’m not going to come down on the young people of today. The reason I’m not going to condemn them is because it’s not their fault. Wow, does that sound new agey or what? I was reading in the Bible the other day, where the children of Israel had wandered after other gods, but it was because they had not seen the power of God demonstrated. What a terrible accusation against the leadership of their nation. That hit me hard, and I couldn’t quit thinking about it. Then it dawned on me. When is the last time that this nation has seen the power of God actually moving in our churches? We have certainly become sophisticated. I can remember the day when they were the shouting Baptists and Methodists, and the Pentecostals were called Holy Rollers. How long has it been since we have heard those descriptions? I am it’s been around forty years. Forty years and the power of God has visibly left many of our churches. As I think back, I remember those times as I lived through them, but if I go back and listen to what my parent and grandparents experienced, and read about the great revivals and the visibility of God’s power in people’s lives during the Finney revivals, and the power of God that was exhibited in the Civil war days and the early days of our nation, I see that even what I experienced was nothing near the presence of God that was manifest in those days. How my heart yearns to, not go back to the good ole days, but to experience the power of God in those ways AGAIN, today! Understand, I am not wanting emotionalism, I am wanting a real move of God, where sinners are saved in the streets, at work, at home, and anyplace else that we can be ministers. This revival will have to come through you and me. It is time to lead our young people by example. Let us be the ones praying for revival, spending time at the altar and time in His Word. So do I blame this generation for not recognizing the fact that they have strayed away from God? No, it’s something that we have allowe by not leading by example. I am praying that God will send another great revival that will awaken the spirits with us.

Reader Comments

Amen, Deon. Thanks for putting it so well.

God is good all the time & all the time God is good. 

Elaine Harcourt

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