Turning Back

Turning Back (2 Chron. 7:14) “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” Rudyard Kipling had an opening verse to a poem titled A The Way through the Woods The first verse said. They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago Weather and rain have undone it again And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods. Like Isaac in the OT we need to reopen the wells that have been dug by our forefathers. Isaac redug those wells that Abraham had built. Without this water neither his family, nor his servants, nor his cattle, nor he himself, could have survived. He knew he would find water in them, once he had cleared them of the earth and debris that the Philistines had piled on top of them. "Quaker philosopher Elton Trueblood described our society as a "cut- flower" civilization. The basic Christian truths have built it, but if we are disconnected from our roots, our ideals and ethics eventually fade and die. If we successfully give Christ to the next generation, we must hand his teachings to them, too". (Herb Miller. Actions Speak Louder Than Verbs. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989, p. 56).