Some Favorite Thoughts
I reread The Pursuit of God recently by A.W. Tozer.
It’s funny how at different seasons of life how good books can impact you in different ways based upon you current circumstances…. that is the case for Pursuit… what a great read for me right now!
I am a reader that marks up his books… bends the corners of pages… totally mess up the appearance of a book… better the book the worse it looks when I am through wit it. I will write favorite thoughts in the empty pages in the front or back of a book for quick reference in the future.
So I thought I would post those “favorite” thoughts!
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in ONE!
God wills that we should PUSH on into His presence and live our whole life there…
It is more than a doctrine to behold… but a life to be ENJOYED… every moment of every day!
The greatest fact of the tabernacle was that Jehovah was there… a Presence was waiting within the veil.
At the heart of the Christian message is GOD himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His PRESENCE!
According to (today’s Christian mindset) its teachings we are in the presence of God POSITIONALY (alone) and nothing is said about the need to experience that PRESENCE ACTUALLY!
…and the present generation of Christians measures itself by this imperfect rule…ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal. We are satisfied to rest in our judicial possessions and, for the most part, we bother ourselves very little about the ABSENCE of personal experience.
SELF is the OPAGUE VEIL that hides the face of God from us!
The VSIBLE becomes the enemy of the INVSIBILE…
The OBJECT of the Christians faith is UNSEEN REALITY!
There is NO contrast between the spiritual and the real… the spiritual (unseen) is real… as the nose on your face!
GOD is the great ALL!
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of… those belong to God. Prying into them may make us theologians but they won’t make us saints!
It is the PRESENT voice (of God) which makes the written WORD… all powerful… the Word is alive because God is alive!
The Bible will never be a LIVING BOOK to us until we are convinced that God is articulate in the universe… now, today!
It is a book (the Bible) which WAS spoken and is still now SPEAKING!
FAITH is the continuous gaze of a soul upon a saving God!
Jesus never uttered OPINIONS!
The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the EFFORT!
Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must… but exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts!
These are just a few…
My copy looks pretty bad… a ton of great stuff in this little book… if you have not read it… read it… if you haven’t read it in a while it’s worth a reread!
