When We Stop Going Forward 6/24 Monday Meditation

Beloved, whenever we stop going forward, we go to milling around. When an individual stops going forward for God, he begins to go in a circle, just as a man when lost in a forest ceases to go straight forward but wanders in a circle. So it was with the early church. When they ceased to go forward, they started wandering in a circle and became lost in the Dark Ages. The Devil... removed the cross, offering them titles, positions, honor, salaries, profits of every kind -- and they fell for it. They no longer needed to look for God for their protection and support... And so it is with our great church bodies of today. History repeats itself in every movement through human weakness and failure. -- Frank Bartleman