Alexander Solzhenitsyn , in his acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (May 1983), summarized our present state well when he said...
"We are witnesses to the devastation of the world, be it imposed or voluntarily undergone. The entire twentieth century is being sucked into the vortex of atheism and self-destruction . This plunge into the abyss has aspects that are unquestionably global, dependent neither on political systems, nor on levels of economic and cultural development, nor yet on national peculiarities... Different parts of the world have followed different paths, but today they are all approaching the threshold of a common ruin.
Solzhenitsyn ended his sobering address in London by directing us toward the only hope for the reformation our world, a revival of our relationship with God...
"Instead of the ill-advised hopes of the last two centuries, which have reduced us to insignificance and brought us to the brink of nuclear and non-nuclear death, we can only reach with determination for the warm hand of God , which we have so rashly and self-confidently pushed away. If we did this, our eyes would be opened to the errors of this unfortunate twentieth century and our hands could be directed to set them right. There is nothing else to cling to in the landslide: all the thinkers of the Enlightenment can give us nothing."
As we pray for revival in America, we must be ready and willing to obey the Lord's command to help others reach with determination for the warm hand of God...
"Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." - Matthew 28:19
Who can you introduce to Jesus today?
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