im to be the arbiter all
the day through? We shall find ourselves walking in a path of
constant conviction and much humbling, but in this way we shall come
into real conformity with the Lamb of God, and we shall know the only
victory that is worth anything, the conquest of self.

CHAPTER 6
REVIVAL IN THE HOME

Thousands of years ago, in the most beautiful Garden the world has
ever known, lived a man and a woman. Formed in the likeness of their
Creator, they lived solely to reveal Him to His creation and to each
other and thus to glorify Him every moment of the day. Humbly they
accepted the position of a creature with the Creator--that of
complete submission and yieldedness to His will. Because they always
submitted their wills to His, because they lived for Him and not for
themselves, they were also completely submitted to each other. Thus
in that first home in that beautiful garden, there was absolute
harmony, peace, love and oneness not only with God, but with each
other.

Then one day, the harmony was shattered, for the serpent stole into
that God-centred home, and with him, sin. And now, because they had
lost their peace and fellowship with God, they lost it with each
other. No longer did they live for God--they each lived for
themselves. They were each their own gods now, and because they no
longer lived for God, they no longer lived for each other. Instead of
peace, harmony, love and oneness--there was now discord and hate--in
other words, SIN!

Revival begins in the Home.

It was into the home that sin first came. It is in the home that we
sin more than perhaps anywhere else, and it is to the home that
revival first needs to come. Revival is desperately needed in the
church--in the country--in the world, but a revived church with
unrevived homes would be sheer hypocrisy. It is the hardest place,
the most costly, but the most necessary place to begin.

But before we go on, let us remind ourselves again of what revival
really is. It simply means new life, in hearts where the spiritual
life has ebbed--but not a new life of self-effort or self-initiated
activity. It is not man's life, but God's life, the life of Jesus
filling us and flowing through us. That Life is manifested in
fellowship and oneness with those with whom we live--nothing between
us and God, and nothing between us and others. The home is the place
before all others where this should be experienced.

But how different is the exper