Ever grab matches that have been sitting in your drawer for ten years and try to light one and the end crumbles off? Is that how your faith is?
Maybe you’ve been in church your whole life. You prayed a prayer when you were a kid, and now it’s just old to you. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard this sermon before. I heard this Scripture before.”
If we’re not careful, we can become arrogant and cocky, thinking we’ve heard everything there is to hear about Jesus. We think we know all there is to know.
How could it be? We know one billionth of one speck of what there is to know about God and we think we’ve heard it all before.
Has your faith grown kind of “old”? Has your Christianity grown “old”? Not mature, just “old,” like “old hat” to you?
If that is you, just say this from your heart to God: “God, I’m sorry. I’ve been in touch with religion and tradition, but I haven’t connected with You. My faith is old. I know You’re not boring or dry. God, break the hardness of my oldness and my callousness, because I want to be on fire.”
Excerpt permission granted by Albury Publishing
Ron Luce was the co-founder and president of Teen Mania Ministries from 1986-2015. Ron and his wife Katie dreamed to raise young people who would change the world.
Ron received his bachelor's degree in Psychology and Theology from Oral Roberts University and his master's in Counseling Psychology from the University of Tulsa, along with an honorary doctorate from Jerry Falwell of Liberty University. He is a sought-after speaker who has traveled to more than 60 countries and has made numerous media appearances, such as Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family radio broadcast, CNN, The O'Reilly Factor, ABC Nightline, The 700 Club, Trinity Broadcasting Network, and the Sean Hannity Show. Ron has also written 35 books for teens, youth pastors, and parents and continues to speak at leaders' conferences helping parents and pastors understand the plight of today's youth and showing them how all of us can be part of the solution.
Ron and Katie currently live in Garden Valley, Texas, with their son Cameron. They have two daughters, Hannah and Charity.