Revival!

REVIVAL! We pray for revival, we send preachers around who try to stir us up spiritually, we hold conventions, conferences, concerts and Bible studies...we do all kinds of things to "revive' us...but I'll tell you what it's going to take. We will NOT be "revived" until WE...Christians...cultivate deep in our hearts a true and genuine love for people! We will not get "revived" until we can read about people who have been shot, run over, killed...and it grieves us to our very souls that these people may well have died without Christ. We will not be "revived" until we can look at starving children in poor countries and we weep in our spirits and we are moved in our hearts so that we know that we have to do something to alleviate their suffering! We will not be "revived" until we can look at the lost and grieve in our souls that they could well spend eternity in hell if they don't receive Christ in their hearts. We will not be "revived" until we can look at people we work with, people we shop with, people we bank with, people we meet daily on the streets and realize that if they don't know Jesus they will be lost forever. We will not be "revived" until we know that we know that it's up to us...not somebody else...to do something about it!