An Empty Reminder of What Once Was....

 

 

When I saw this lobster tail I was stunned by its beauty. (Research by the University of Maine suggests only 1 in 2 million are blue.) I was sobered by its lifeless form. What was alive and thriving, was no more. What lived and moved, was dead and still. I was looking at the mere shell of what once was...

As I peered through my lens to take this picture I thought of John Wesley's concern for the white-hot movement of faith sweeping across England and America on the heels of his evangelistic preaching. The river of revival was molten. It was Spirit and fire. It was passion. It was devotion to methodical holiness. It was methodical work to rescue the perishing in a debauched and drunken society. It was God at work through the people called "methodist" - and it transformed culture.

Three years before his death (as the "methodist" revival was growing and gaining momentum) John Wesley had a horrifying thought. He wrote:

"I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid, lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case, unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out." 

Never forget; we can't live Godly lives without God. 

I pray you'll join me for a fresh infilling of the Spirit as we bring the church together for worship this Wednesday at the Granger Campus.

Come.

Blaze again with sacred fire.

Do not settle for a form of godliness while denying its power.

 

2 Timothy 3:1-5  -  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.