Something to think about
March 21st, 2010 | filed under: Jesus talk | Edit: It was pointed out to me that Francis Chan does a sermon about this very thing, called “The Most Important Lesson I Could Ever Teach.” I highly recommend checking it out, and you can download the video or the audio.From “The Pursuit of God” by A.W. Tozer: (via)
“How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of ‘accepting’ Christ . . . and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls. We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him. This is set before us as the last word in orthodoxy, and it is taken for granted that no Bible-taught Christian ever believed otherwise. Thus the whole testimony of the worshiping, seeking, singing church on that subject is crisply set aside. The experiential heart-theology of a grand army of fragrant saints is rejected in favor of a smug interpretation of Scripture which would certainly have sounded strange to an Augustine, a Rutherford or a Brainerd.” (pp. 16-17)
This quote hits home for me because I’m one of the worst perpetrator of this. I try to read and listen to things to hopefully make God more real in my life and reflect through my actions–different blogs, sermons here and there, chapel talks, devos, etc., BUT as far as me actually making spiritual food through my own research, my own reading, etc., I’m doing pretty bad. Sometimes I feel like I expect Jesus to fix me without any effort on my part. I need less of self and more of God.
My prayer for myself is that the Lord will break me and have His Way with me.
How does this apply to your life?
~ Jon
