“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionists, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart…
“Come near to the holy men and the holy women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God…
“David’s life was a torrent of spiritual desire, and His Psalms ring with the cry of the seeker and the glad shout of the finder…
“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…In the midst of this great chill, there are some, I rejoice to acknowledge, who will NOT be content with shallow logic. They will admit the force of the argument, and then turn away with tears to hunt some lonely place and pray, “O God, show me Thy glory!” They want to taste, to touch with their hearts, to see with their inner eyes the wonder that is God.”
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, pp. 15-17
Oh how true. Echoed by none other than the Apostle Paul as well in Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
I enjoy your writings! Keep them up, Brother!
Thank you, Heather, my sister! I will if you will…
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will do! 🙂
Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on me!
Oh, I echo that Walter! Again and again and again…