The way to personal spiritual revival.

Another except from Spiritual Mindedness by John Owen. 

Remember your former spiritual state. Remember how it was when you first became a Christian. Remember how strong and vigorous your spiritual hunger and thirst, how greatly you desired Christ and his grace and mercy. Now compare it to your present spiritual state. This will help you to arouse your desires to return to God and to be healed of your present low spiritual condition (Hos 2:7).
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Call to mind the former days. Consider whether those days where better than now, when in your lying down and your rising up, you had many thoughts of God, and how sweet and precious they were to your souls; when you rejoiced at the remembrance of His holiness; when you had zeal for His glory,  delight in His worship, and were glad when they said 'Let us go to the house of God together'; when you poured out your souls in prayer and experienced his love reviving your hearts. Remember what peace of mind, and what joy you had, and compare it to what you have got now in your present lukewarm state. 

Dare to speak plainly with yourself. Is it not true that all you have now, all you present dealings with God, are nothing more than mere formality arising from habit and selfishness or accompanied with trouble, anxiety and fears? Do you truly know either how to live or how to die? Are you not sometimes a terror to yourself? It must be so, unless you are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 

What have all your present loves done for you that you entertain them instead of entertaining Christ and spiritual things? Speak plainly. Have they not defiled you, wounded you, weakened you and brought you in the condition where you do not know what you are, nor to whom you belong? What are your thoughts when you are most awaken, when you are most yourselves? Do you ever sigh and say to yourself ' Oh that it were with me as in former days?'

If remembering your former state does not begin to revive you, then you either have never had a true and real work of God in your souls or you have been hardened by the deceitfulness of sin!

Bold emphasis not on original

Spiritual Mindedness by John Owen,

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