Psalm 90:16-17 NLT

Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory. And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful.

If Christianity were a crime, would a jury find enough evidence to convict you?

I have been privileged through my lifetime to see the Church reawakened through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I, like so many in my generation, am a beneficiary of the move of God among young people in the 1960s and 1970s. I have seen and experienced the miraculous work of God in my own experience and through observing God at work in the lives of others; so many stories of experiences that can motivate and mobilise future generations.

Yet, at the same time, there is a drift towards settling down and letting go of my earnest pursuit of God. Rationality seeks to deconstruct the inexplicable simply upon the basis of irrationality. I grow content with a meagre diet of dogmatism and habits that appear Christian but have had both the power and life of God drained from them.

My daily prayer is once again, “[itals]Maranatha[end itals]”, Come Lord Jesus (see 1 Corinthians 16:22). It is to rake choices to live in a way that encourages the work of God in this world, of which I am a steward. I want to play my part in ensuring current and future generations might “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8), rather than drown beneath a litany of stories of what God once did, but the substance of which they have never experienced for themselves.

It is time to consider if there’s sufficient evidence to convict you of the crime of Christianity!

QUESTION: Have you slipped the gears of your walk with Jesus into neutral? Are you still hungry to see the goodness of God at work in the land of the living?

PRAYER: May I cooperate with your Holy Spirit today so that I am part of the answer to the prayer: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven” (Luke 11:2, NKJV).