Our desperate need for revival

We all “know” that we need revival, but therein is exactly the problem. We “know” it: with our mind. We don’t grieve in our spirit that God’s Spirit is not present in our lives or churches. We don’t have heaviness on our heart for the lack of passion for God and His Word. We don’t weep and mourn and wail for the lostness of people or the emptiness we feel in our lives apart from God. But intellectually we ‘know’ that we need revival. Kind of like we know that we should eat more vegetable. Like we know we should sleep more. Like we know we should spend more time with God. But we don’t have the time. We don’t have the energy. We don’t have the will power. And that too betrays what is really going on in our hearts. We think that to have revival we need to try harder. We think that to have revival we need to put forth more effort. In a sense we do, but really all that is need for revival is desperate waiting on God: desperate crying out to God. We need to admit our weaknesses, admit the impossible situations, and admit the filthy rags that we have previously called our own ‘goodness’. And then we must wait. In the waiting God will shine a light on our hearts and then we will only be even more convinced and convicted of our need for revival. Our need is revealed in our apathy, in our ignorance and in our souls. Pray that God will show you your own desperate need for revival!