Few there be that find it implies everyone else wouldve wanted it if they found it?

[Sammy-San]

It is a sobering verse.

 

[Hieronymus]

Would be nice if you gave us the text location and verse number(s).

Yes, sobering..
The reluctance to seek God, which isn't even a rational choice, is what probably stands in the way..

 

[Sammy-San]

Would be nice if you gave us the text location and verse number(s).

Yes, sobering..
The reluctance to seek God, which isn't even a rational choice, is what probably stands in the way..

If it wasnt for our fear of rejection too.

 

[Hieronymus]

If it wasnt for our fear of rejection too.

Good point.
Lack or deficit in faith either way..

 

[Sammy-San]

Would be nice if you gave us the text location and verse number(s).

Yes, sobering..
The reluctance to seek God, which isn't even a rational choice, is what probably stands in the way..

This is why I find the word revival wierd.

 

[Hieronymus]

This is why I find the word revival wierd.

Well, it's perhaps like sheep, because we are perhaps like sheep...
Dutch saying (maybe in English too):
When one sheep is over the dam, the rest will follow.
Meaning that when we as a flock see a few successfully navigate a hurdle of some sorts, we're motivated to do the same.
This is how it should work with a revival too.
Now, for many of us, at least for me, it's like a hurdle i can't see beyond and i'm alone contemplating to take that hurdle.
So, yes, i lack faith and fear rejection myself too.
As a sheep, i believe my Sheppard is beyond the hurdle though..

 

[Sammy-San]

Good point.
Lack or deficit in faith either way..

Gods ways are higher. It would be easy to understand if only lucifer and his angels were the ones going to hell but God doesnt do things based on how I feel.

 

[Hieronymus]

...there's also the necessity of God's Spirit to get a revival started.
It's not just up to the sheep if there will be a revival.

 

[Hieronymus]

Gods ways are higher. It would be easy to understand if only lucifer and his angels were the ones going to hell but God doesnt do things based on how I feel.

Oh, are you stuck with the moral problems of the traditional view regarding the fate of the unsaved?
I've been stuck there for 2 years. Luckily that's years behind me already.
The teaching of eternal life in the lake of Fire.
It's the traditional view, unfortunately.
It chases away many people.
But it's not Biblical, except for a very few verses, like in Revelation.
John 3:16 is clear though.
The condition for eternal life is Faith in God.
Without it we die the 2nd death in the lake of Fire.
Death is death, not life.

 

[Sammy-San]

Would be nice if you gave us the text location and verse number(s).

Yes, sobering..
The reluctance to seek God, which isn't even a rational choice, is what probably stands in the way..

It implies that though?

 

[UnprofitableServant]

It is a sobering verse.

What makes this verse interesting is the amount of Christians in the world that has proclaimed they found IT. If all professing Christians in the world today have actually found what Jesus was talking about, then wouldn't this scripture be rendered useless?

It seems to me that in order for this scripture to hold true, we have to assume that most, if not all, that profess Christianity have not actually found it...

I think this, is, what makes this a sobering thought, IMO.

In peace

 

[Sammy-San]

What makes this verse interesting is the amount of Christians in the world that has proclaimed they found IT. If all professing Christians in the world today have actually found what Jesus was talking about, then wouldn't this scripture be rendered useless?

It seems to me that in order for this scripture to hold true, we have to assume that most, if not all, that profess Christianity have not actually found it...

I think this, is, what makes this a sobering thought, IMO.

In peace

Few means less than 50%