During the Age of Reasoning man woke up from some kind of trans-metamorphic trance and gave credit to thought, intelligence, and things more tangible and less spiritual. Man’s perspective changed. Thus The Great Awakening showed that Man had wandered into a great sleep; an era where slavery, less care and concern about their fellow man, and a pure denouncement of God. Man began thinking ‘it doesn’t take all that’ for religion to be relevant in your life. That if you did right, took care of your family, increased your position in the community and went to church on Sunday, you were good in God’s eye. No emotion, no redemption, no salvation. Just a native realization of religion and God. But how can you worship God without thanking him for bringing you through your tough times? How can you acknowledge Him without feeling something? An awakening must occur in us as people when we realize God is real, that your health, that cancer that went away; your child not dying when the doctor said he would; you escaping an abusive husband when other women and children get killed; you just making it through the week when you only had $10 and less than a quarter tank of gas until payday. How can you not feel some kind of way when all this happens?
