The prescription for restoration, for healing, for a fresh start, and for empowerment from God, is the same for all of us no matter where we find ourselves. If you are in this condition and needy today I have good news for you, there is hope! There is an answer!
First: we have to cease pretending to be something we’re not. This despair will not be broken by putting up a front that we have it all together. This is likely the greatest hindrance there is to personal revival. Honesty and vulnerability is the only thing that can help any man or woman, and yet, it is the hardest thing for someone who is struggling to walk in.
I am not superman! I am not a man of steel there are many things I can be weakened by in life. I am a man, a human being and I have weaknesses and frailties, emotions, and five senses that God gave to me for a purpose. These things can sometimes be an asset and sometimes they are my greatest weaknesses. Sometimes what we think to be our greatest strength can become our weakness.
No matter how weak I might feel, no matter how defeated I may appear to be, no matter how strong the snare of the enemy, the prescription of God remains simple, it stays constant, it never changes!
It is the solution to sin, to prayerlessness, to a lack of hunger for the word, to my avoiding Christian fellowship, to feeling inferior to others who seem more spiritual. It is God’s timeless answer.
What is it?
Humble yourself! God revives the humble!
Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Humility is not a last option when all else fails, it is our first and only option else we fail.
About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
