May 8, 2007

• Even tho I travel with a "revival team," a team who's mission and purpose is to break up the unplowed and stale areas of our Christian lives, and to bring life and passion back into churches and individuals, it doesn't mean that I am an exception from needing that treatment myself. In fact, as you are repeatedly teaching the same lessons and principles, seeing the same reoccurring deadness in the Church as a whole, it's so easy to slip into that trap of apathy and complacency yourself...and to do it under the mistaken idea that you are still alive and breathing in the Spirit.

  And that is EXACTLY where I am finding myself. It began so gradually that I can't even tell you when it began, all I know is that from the peak of the spiritual mountain, I am suddenly finding myself dragging through the mud at the base of that glorious pinnacle.

  But, as promised, there is no temptation that comes to anyone, that God does not give a way of escape! And as I've realized where I'm at, admitted my failure, and asked for God's grace to drag me back up out of the pit of complacency...He had done that. Maybe it's the ten thousandths time He's had to do it for me, but as if there was never any past record of failure, is doing it as if it was merely the first time. That's mercy. Grace. Love.

  In a nutshell, what am I learning? To strengthen at any cost the power of my witness. And to see that my witness, in what I say and do, is backed up with a heart parallelling that truth.

  "But see that your manner of life is in accordance with the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, striving side by side for the faith of the gospel."

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