Revival is Coming…

As a ‘highly sensitive person’ I tend to experience life with heightened senses. Sometimes this feels like a sensory overload, the noise of children shouting in my echoey kitchen, bright strip lights, hot weather or loud background music can all steal my peace and leave me feeling overwhelmed. I also feel other people’s emotions more deeply than some. I can perceive pain in someone’s eyes, their body language tells me a story and I try to help them wherever I can. This is a gift and a burden, depending on the situation.

It seems more recently that God is tapping into that sensitivity to increase my gratitude. Food tastes better, birdsong is sweeter, my children’s smiles light up the room, nature is more beautiful, it’s seems as if he’s flicked a switch and my senses are working to my advantage, not my detriment.

Everyday I am finding so many things to give thanks for and gratitude is the soil in which the seed of joy grows. It reminds me of a Bible verse, ‘See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.’ Isaiah 43:19. If we only stop rushing around and pause we might just perceive what God is doing.

Let’s take an example we might be familiar with. We can all look at the state of the British nation and feel horror, we might wonder where God is in all of this mess. But if we stop for long enough we might notice that revival is coming, it’s quiet, but we can perceive it. People are more interested in the things of God, they’re more soft hearted, churches are filling up with people coming in off the streets with no church background, polical commentators are asking what’s life all about. It’s an exciting time to be alive and to know God. Without Christ everything is at crisis point, but with him guiding our path we can perceive an ever growing light, drawing people to him. The darker the world gets, the more clearly we see the light of Christ.

Those of us who know Christ already have a mighty work ahead of us, for the harvest in plenty, let us be the workers who gather them in. Our nation can heal, but only with Christ, and with prayer we will see him transform lives.

Sending blessings to you all.