August 9, 2008
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AW Tozer on
Every notable advance in the saving work of God among men will, if
examined, be found to have two factors present: several converging
lines of providential circumstances and a person.Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray, 50.
A. W. TozerEvangelism: The Desperate Personal Search
The average person in the world today, without faith and without God
and without hope, is engaged in a desperate personal search throughout
his lifetime. He does not really know where he has been. He does not
really know what he is doing here and now. He does not know where he is
going.The sad commentary is that he is doing it all on borrowed time and
borrowed money and borrowed strength–and he already knows that in the
end he will surely die! It boils down to the bewildered confession of
many that “we have lost God somewhere along the way.”…Man, made more like God than any other creature, has become less like
God than any other creature. Created to reflect the glory of God, he
has retreated sullenly into his cave–reflecting only his own
sinfulness.Certainly it is a tragedy above all tragedies in this world that man,
made with a soul to worship and praise and sing to God’s glory, now
sulks silently in his cave. Love has gone from his heart. Light has
gone from his mind. Having lost God, he blindly stumbles on through
this dark world to find only a grave at the end. Whatever Happened to
Worship?, 65-66.
Comments (2)
OH..WORSHIP!!
Is there ANYTHING more capable of keeping a person sane in the midst of ‘life’ and its ups and downs than worship? The true throwing up your hands and just crying out to God .. “YOU ARE MORE THAN ABLE MY GOD, MY KING, MY REFUGE, MY STRONGHOLD. I HIDE BENEITH THE SHELTER OF YOUR WING PAPA .. YOU KEEP ME SAFE. I REPENT OF MY TRYING TO HOLD ONTO STUFF THAT I CANNOT CONTROL OR FIX .. AND IHAND IT ALL OVER TO YOU. TAKE IT AS AN OFFERING OF LOVE DEAREST. I GIVE IT TO YOU .. I TAKE MY HANDS OFF THIS SITUATION NOW .. AND NOW I LIFT MY VOICE TO WORSHIP YOU HOLDING NOTHING BACK .. I AM YOURS.”
I have thought i have lost it all so many times .. but God. To be able to just give it all to him and then humble myself and thank him for EVERYTHING not in my strength but by the power of the Holy Spirit … to feel those burdens fall off my back as i take my eyes off the circumstances that surround me as if to drown me and place them willfully and securely on HIm .. the Almighty, knowing that those burdens are never to return as long as i leave them in His hands. Its priceless. How could i live any other way? Is any other way truly what we can call ‘life’? Sorry, I cant see it. Life is too short to carry around that which i was not made to carry. I prefer to be in there, with His presence with me, taking each step at a time .. knowing that all is well, no matter what rages around me. How can our hearts not sing and rejoice in that fact alone???
Tozers quote up there… oh Brian, that is what is happening to me and Thailand!