All of us have had tunes buzzing around in our heads for days or months, they just seem to linger. My head gets tunes with perfect melody’s but when they come out of my mouth, not so much. I was gifted with at least one gene from my father. The tune, “Open my Eyes, that I Might See”, has been banging around in my head for months. Being a committed dunderhead that I am, I finally had to look up the lyrics as given to you in the preceding post.
The personal
faith expressed by Clara H. Scott in 1895 is the same faith that inspired the
fire of the Reformation, three hundred years earlier. As we all know every fire will burn itself out
as did the Reformation which quickly cooled as the movement descended into petty
partisan religious politics. As the
twentieth century and the spirit of Clara H. Scott broke upon us, a new fire
was ignited in America which some have named the Evangelical Movement. Our country, as did others, experienced
revival fires as individual people became seekers of spiritual truth in an
atmosphere of freedom but the camp meetings and street evangelism also cooled as
the Great Depression and World Wars distracted the faithful.
The power of
every establishment to influence the affairs of humankind cannot be
understated. Through the twentieth century
spiritual freedom has been progressively replaced by religious orthodoxy. All spiritual
fires are extinguished when the people are told what to believe and to think
about God, Jesus in particular. Jesus
did not have the DNA of God because he was and is the appointed messenger of God who
preached and is calling all of us to the homeland of eternity.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
