Desire for our Generation

For a fact, I see today’s Christianity as a deviation from what our ancient fathers practiced and professed. The more I study about our ancient fathers of Christianity and how they walked with the Lord, the more I lose interest in what our pulpits profess today. Ancient fathers like Thomas Kempis, Bro. Lawrence, George Fox, John Calvin and William Law experienced great fellowship with our Lord and exerted so much authority and power of the Holy Spirit. These people focused on the interior life, salvation, holiness, meditation, prayer and communion with the Lord. In our days, the focus has been on prosperity and how we can use faith to achieve whatever we want. Our idea of heaven has diminished and we are more into making ourselves happy and satisfying our egos. These ancient fathers studied, practiced and professed to be unknown for the glorification of Christ. We are more concerned about outward appearance and worldly achievements. We are in a hurry to pray, read scriptures so we can express our ‘knowledge’ of God while we know little of Him. Richard Foster states emphatically that in our contemporary society, our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us in “muchness” and “manyness” he will rest satisfied. Their main focus was on Christ and constant fellowship with the lord. They gave less time to the material things of the world and the devil because they were men and women who have surrendered their lives to Christ and from within them full of Christ for His purpose. In our time, there is constant appeal and fight to achieve something and fight against the ‘devil’ and his evil cohorts while within us, the greatest enemy of self has not been dealt with. Our churches are filled with unconverted and half converted people who proclaim to be Christians. We are constantly praying against the activities of the devil and how to make our lives better in this world but what do we see, less of God’s power because people who profess to know God are only honoring Him with their lips.  These ancient fathers, gave their whole life to Christ and dedicated themselves to the study of scriptures, prayer and communion with the Lord not to go and preach or satisfy their ego but to draw closer to Christ. We see in our times, the rush to read as many scriptures as possible not because we want to be filled with them but to satisfy our egos and boast about how much we have read and not how much we have been converted. May we go back to the old paths of our fathers, dedicate our lives to Christ, shun the material world, seek Christ and everything about Him. The so called ‘Christian’ jams or praise full of noise to satisfy our worldly desires, revivals that do not change anything, so called powerful word that has not converted a single fly must give way to true conversion, desire to know Christ and Him ONLY, the desire to seek His wisdom and knowledge not be seen but to remain unknown. We as a generation cry unto you oh God, help us to seek you and journey on the old path as our ancient fathers did. Maranatha!