Until now you have not asked for anything in my
name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. John 16:24
There seems to be a
chilling and paralyzing fear of holy enthusiasm among the people of God in our
day.
We try to tell how happy
we are—but we remain so well controlled that there are very few waves of glory
among us!
Some go to the ball game
and come back whispering because they are hoarse from shouting and cheering.
But no one in our day ever goes home from church with a voice hoarse from
shouts brought about by a manifestation of the glory of God among us.
Actually, our apathy
about praise in worship is like an inward chill in our beings. We are under a
shadow and we are still wearing the grave clothes. You can sense this in much
of our singing in the contemporary church. Perhaps you will agree that in most
cases it is a kind of plodding along, without the inward lift of blessing and
victory, resurrection joy and overcoming in Jesus’ name.
Why is this?
It is largely because we
are looking at what we are, rather than responding to who Jesus Christ is!
We have often failed and
have not been overcomers because our trying and striving have been in our own
strength. This leaves us very little to sing about!
Brethren, human activity
and human sweat and tears work not the victory of Christ! It took the sweat and
tears and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It took the painful dying and the
victorious resurrection and ascension to bring us the victory. Jesus Christ is
our Overcomer!
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