Of Old and New

I'm in Europe right now and during the day I've been wondering through these amazing 500 year old chapel/cathedral/church buildings.  The paintings are extraordinary and the acoustical workings of the buildings are sheer brilliance.  I even sound good!  But there's only one problem--they're empty!  Granted I was there on a weekday at an odd hour, but reports are that these buildings hold fewer and fewer people.

As one who professes Jesus, I long to see these buildings filled anew again with worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth.  Would that there would be songs, hymns and spiritual songs rise to the heavens!  And what wonderful places to have "houses of prayer!"   This nation that I'm visiting has everything, and I mean everything.  Oh, but that it would have Jesus...