God Will Manifest Himself

"And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?" (Genesis 3:9)

If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is not, cannot even conceive of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world?

The Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. he is manifest only when and as we are aware of His presence.

On our part, there must be surrender to the Spirit of God, for His work is to show us the Father and the Son. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

Oh, may He come to us now and light up the sanctuary of our hearts until they shine like the chambers above! may He open to our vision His own immediate, everlasting presence! Amen!

~A. W. Tozer~

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The Voluntary Sellout

"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life" (John 10:27-28)

Let no one imaging that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he find his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all he finds his own highest honor upheld.

Anyone who might feel reluctant to surrender his will to the will of another should remember Jesus' words, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin" (John 8:34). We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle Master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

The spirit of the carnal mind is an independent spirit. But a sense of perfect dependence is a grateful guest of the broken and contrite heart.

~A. W. Tozer~