I went on vacation last week to a place that prides itself on holding onto the past. In the downtown area, there are signs everywhere that the people want to make changes. We are a nation that forever likes to live in the moment, forgetting the past and foraging into the future. Yet we feel a pull to go back to those simple times. Our past has a lot to teach us. It can't define us. We can't be so focused on living or trying to live in a past that we have no part of living.
Hence the struggle...a big part of that past is what we really need to bring back to life. We forgot God to our drive to gather more stuff to satisfy the huge hole in our lives. We look for the next best thing, little realizing that we forgot the very one that gave us our being. I noticed the churches that peppered the area and mourned. Not even the website for the place mentions the presence of these churches. Where has our faith gone? Have we given up on God?
I long for the days, seems like a lifetime ago, when the churches were alive and growing with people. I still remember the days after that horrific day in September 2001 when a mini revival started. What happened? Has time washed away the revival?
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