“Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. And when he saw that (like Peter, took eyes off the Lord)…[He] came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die.”
(1 Kgs. 19:2-4)
Powerless, lifeless, emptiness—do you feel any of these adjectives portrays your church, family, or ministry? And even worse, are they descriptive of your personal life, spiritually? If so, I know one thing for sure, the thrill of the spiritual is gone out of your life. What I mean by this is that you have lost the excitement of the eternal. And if this be the case, there really are no meaningful words in any dictionary to describe your wretched condition. As the little saying goes, “It’s beyond description.”
We can come up with all types of quack remedies for our ailment, but in the end we’ll find no healing virtue in any of them. What got us in the rut is what will get us out of it. In other words, the cure is to be found in the cause. And so, what is at the root of it? It’s actually very simple; somewhere along the way we lost the Wonder of it all. We allowed things to bring about a spiritual eclipse of HIM. Our attention moved from the Giver to the gifts. “He who hath builded the house [no longer] hath more honour than the house.”
May each of us crawl to Christ, begging His forgiveness, for allowing our virtues to become our vices, thereby distorting our vision of Him.
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