A Word to the Awakened
By Baptist Weekly
Dig deep, and lay your foundation well is our earnest advice to every awakened soul. Every revival, nearly, brings into the church more or less of what may be called "shaky professors." Their religious life is frail, ill-built, tottering, and sure to come down in the first stiff gale of temptation. The simple reason is there was no underlying godliness based on Jesus Christ. When you see a huge crack in the third story room of a tall mansion, you may at once suppose that there is something wrong in the foundation. So with religious profession that is not securely resting on the solid rock, Christ Jesus. Sooner or later the crack appears in the daily life, or else the flimsy structure leans over world-ward like a bowing wall and a tottering fence. Even if it manages to hold itself up until the dying hour, the tremendous surge of death tumbles the whole edifice of presumption and falsehood into irretrievable ruin. When the last storm descends, and the floods beat upon it, it falls, and "great will be the fall of it," for eternity can bring no repair to the wreck. Be sure you are crucified with Christ, emptied of self-righteousness, and that you have heartily taken the Lord Jesus and him only, as your life and righteousness, surrendering all for him and finding all in him.