Hola, bloggers! From love musings to spiritual musings. 'The Pursuit of God by A.W Tozer is one of the Christian Writings that influenced my thinking along with that of the woks of the prince of preachers, the British pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Amidst our busy lifestyle, please let us not forget to gaze and ponder on the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Keeper of our soul. Let me share with you some excerpts from Tozer's 'The Pursuit of God' and I hope they will give you light and deep spiritual insights....
"The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand.
God is a person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of the New Testament religion.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in ONE. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in ONE all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in ONE, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever."
Have great and blessed days ahead bloggers. I am Ophelia leaving you with this thought
Materialism and Eternalism cannot wed.
Source of photo: The Shrine by John William Waterhouse taken from illusionsgallery.com
"The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand.
God is a person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of the New Testament religion.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in ONE. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in ONE all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in ONE, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever."
Have great and blessed days ahead bloggers. I am Ophelia leaving you with this thought
Materialism and Eternalism cannot wed.
Source of photo: The Shrine by John William Waterhouse taken from illusionsgallery.com
