“Personal Devotion”

(Reflection From: Pietistic)

     We really can't deny that pietistic revival was very successful in teaching and helping men to remain in their faith in God in the time when Rationalism rose. It encouraged men to have personal relationship with God, not just with own knowledge but by reading the Scripture daily and daily prayer. God is really good because He used some men to stress the importance of personal relationship to Him, especially in that crucial time.

     Our time nowadays is not different from before, it is even worse, because it is not just rationalism which is present in this times but also many more established ideas that are being practiced by so many people which encourages to deny God and the Scripture. This is why I believe that being pietistic must be practiced always, not just because of the false beliefs that surround us and the threat they bring, but because this is what a believer must have, a personal relationship with God. Even as we look at the Scripture, it teaches us and commands us to study God's Word day and night and meditating on it (Ps. 1:2) and to pray continually (1 Thess. 5:17). This only tells us that pietistic lifestyle is not just a movement created by men, it is commanded by God even from the

     Therefore, as a church leader I would really value and practice the pietistic way of life personally and also stress it to the members of the church. I will explain how it was developed and what does the Scripture tells about it and calls it as what it is called right now, “personal devotion”.