Focus: Spiritual Renewal
Revival is born of desire. Never does it come to the uncaring, unconcerned, and unmotivated. It will not intrude upon the seclusion of a satisfied soul. There must be a rebirth of spiritual appetite, a hungering and thirsting for the heavenly bread and the living water of complete satisfaction. Revival is the bringing to life again the dead in sin, or the renewing in the Holy Ghost of the soul drifting from salvation.
“Desire” is a positive passion where “lust” usually has a negative connotation. Lust is a synonym of desire, but denotes a stronger feeling of passion. Without being crude or resorting to gutter lingo, can I say, “Let there be a holy ‘lust for revival’ in the church.” May it be the driving obsession of our lives, to feel the power of God and be saturated in its overflow, to be so inundated with “Holy God” our lives become completely holy, and to be infused with a divine unction to share the “good news” with everyone we have opportunity to meet.
If desire can prevail over apathy, if the desire for the miraculous becomes stronger than our yearning for natural food, if the desire for spiritual intimacy drives sleep from our leaden eyes, if desire for communion conquers complacency, then we will arise to our spiritual challenge defeating the enemies of evangelism. Revival will be our mantra and spiritual conquest our chorus of victory!
Desire is the “want to” in the midst of apathy. It is the “go to” in adversity, and the “have to” in the face of futility. Whatever we covet, we strive to attain. We energize all our resources to accomplish those things we desperately desire.
Why not make revival the objective of our obsession?
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