the ancient paths...

This last day or so as I've traveled up to Brainerd, MN for a couple nights of worship I've been pondering the state of organized Christianity in our nation and what's in the heart of God as far as a fresh movement of His Spirit is concerned. Last night I was reminded in prayer of the verse in Jeremiah, where the Lord speaks of the "ancient paths" "This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (Jeremiah 6:16)

To continue the story, this morning I was walking around outside with my friend's one and a half year old son Sawyer meandering around their gravel driveway. I watched him become intrigued with the smallest of things. A look of simple delight and wonder graced his face as he pointed to different things. Then we walked by a place on the driveway that led to a path through the woods. The entry way was a little overgrown with tall grass, but as I looked through the woods it seemed to be well groomed and led to another house. Sawyer looked down the path, then pointed and looked back at me as if trying to communicate something. He waited for a second as I stood behind him watching what he was about to do. A few moments later as we continued on, I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit say to me, "And a little child shall lead them..."

So my thought is maybe this new movement that God desires to release in the earth has less to do with major ministry heads coming up with clever world reaching strategies and huge vision statements and more to do with a grassroots, child led revival characterized by wonder and simple delight springing up from the highways and byways and the out of the way places that nobody's ever heard of. And maybe this revival will be sustained by a nameless, faceless remnant that would rather have God as their portion than anything this world could offer in all its false pomp and glory. And maybe the boredom of organized Christianity will be replaced by the fascination of true FRIENDSHIP with GOD. And maybe its sooner than we think. This is my prayer..