How exactly does one’s soul become revived? If you’re tired, if you’re bored, if you’re feeling lackluster, then you know very well that you need revival.
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple… (Psalm 19:7)
King David writes, “the Law of God is perfect.” It is this “perfection” which revives a person’s soul. He further says that when God speaks this law into being, everything else fades away and becomes irrelevant. If God’s law is perfect and the law revives the soul, we should then try to understand what this law is exactly and find out why it revives souls. The law of God is simple. Jesus states it this way: “love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, mind, and soul; and love your neighbor as yourself.” What people miss is this simple fact: that when we love God and other people with everything we have and are, there is nothing left to be burdened by within us. People are in need of revival because they are so dead to themselves because they have consumed more than they can handle within themselves. When we love God and others, ourselves become irrelevant. The burden that is lifted when we become irrelevant is incredible. It provides us with new life– less worries to drag on us.
Our souls can be revived when we practice the law of the Lord because in doing so, we have emptied the death within our souls so that we can be revived by the life given by God. Whatever wisdom there is in self sustenence is now defunct and foolish by Good law of love. How amazing.
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