From The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer Current evangelicalism has laid the altar and divided the sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stones and rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel. . [See 1 Kings 18 for the allusions.-ccp] But God be thanked that there are a few who care. They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile themselves to the continued absence of fire. They desire God above all. They are athirst to taste for themselves the piercing sweetness of the love of Christ about Whom all the holy prophets did write and the psalmists did sing. There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many of these seem satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year, strangely unaware that there is in their ministry no manifest Presence, nor anything unusual in their personal lives. They minister constantly to believers who feel within their breasts a longing which their teaching simply does not satisfy. I trust I speak in charity, but the lack in our pulpits is real. Miltons terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. It is a solemn thing,[Pg 9] and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see Gods children starving while actually seated at the Fathers table. The truth of Wesleys words is established before our eyes: Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this. theboc/freestuff/awtozer/books/the_pursuit_of_god/preface.html amazon/Pursuit-God-W-Tozer/dp/1557427534
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:47:23 +0000
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