Pursuit of God 3
I can’t get by Days 4-6. Day 7 says “Now the journey can begin…” and my spirit said… no, you didn’t really deal with the letting go of things… so I have been pondering and praying, and will sit here for a while as the Spirit works in my heart.
God’s gift’s now taking the place of God… our roots going down deep into… things, comforts, talents, relationships, ideals, instead of Christ. and Tozer’s wise words:
“Let me exhort you to take this seriously. It is not to be understood as mere Bible teaching to be stored away in the mind along with an inert mass of other doctrines. It is a marker on the road to greener pastures, a path chiseled against the steep sides of the mount of God. We dare not try to bypass it if we would follow on in this holy pursuit… If we refuse one step, we bring our progress to an end.”
He then retells the story of Abraham and Isaac, that is SO compelling… “It is beautiful to see that, while he erred as to God’s method, he had correctly sensed the secret of His great heart.”
and
“There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is on of the most harmful habits in thie life. Because it is natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.”
So how do recognize these things that are IDOLS, quite frankly, in our hearts? and how do we get rid of them?… Ask the Spirit to show us… Psalm 19 “cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back they servant also from presumptuous sins“
Stop trying to defend myself and make excuses for myself… whose defense would I rather, my weak one, or God Himself as my defender?!?!?!
And then take it seriously, coming to God fully determined to be heard. this sentence made me laugh “If he will become drastic enough he can shorten the time of his travail from years to minutes and enter the good land long before his slower brethren who coddle their feelings and insist upon caution in their dealing with God.”
“And we shall need to steel ourselves against his (my soul’s) piteous begging and to recognize it as springing out of self-pity, one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart.”
It is not an easy thing to root out things from our hearts. Part of me wants desperately to skip this part. The looking inward might (probably will be) too painful and UGLY… and yet what do I want more. My things, that aren’t mine? Or Father God on the throne, holding all the gifts He gave me safely in His hand?
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