Seize The Day

"That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh" (2 Corinthians 4:11)

Today is our day. No one at any time has ever had any spiritual graces that we at this time cannot enjoy if we will meet the terms on which they are given. If these times are morally darker, they but provide a background against which we can shin the brighter.

Our God is the God of today as well as yesterday, and we may be sure that wherever our tomorrow may carry us, our faithful God will be with us as He was with Abraham and David and Paul.

Those great men did not need us then, and we cannot have them with us now. Amen. So be it. And God be praised! We cannot have them, but we can have that which is infinitely better - we can have their God and Father, and we can have their Saviour, and we can have the same blessed Holy Spirit that made them great.

The surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God's eternal purposes about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment. It is our business to piece it together, and to live it into one orderly vocation.

~A. W. Tozer~
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Glorious Future, Blessed Tomorrow

"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14)

The normal Bible direction is not backward, it is always forward. Jacob returned to the altar, but in doing so he did not go back, he went forward. The Prodigal Son did not say, "I will go back"; he said, "I will arise and go to my father."

From where he was, going to his father's house was a forward step in his moral activities. It represented no retreat, but a distinct advance over his previous conduct.

The will of God is always the proper goal for every one of us. Where God is must be the place of desire. Any motion toward God is a forward motion. Even repentance is not a retreat toward the past but a decided march into a more glorious future. Restitution is not a return to yesterday but a step into a blessed tomorrow.

If we find that we have gone back, then we should immediately reverse the direction and again go forward.

God's purpose in all His dealings with us is to make us grow into something higher. The greatest calamity that can come to a soul is to be satisfied with its present condition.

~A. W. Tozer~