Walking Mystery ... Walking Miracle

"Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings" (Isaiah 33:14)

Our Lord does not expect us to behave like zombies when we become Christians. But He does expect that we will have our soul open to the mystery that is God. I think it is proper for us to say that a genuine Christian should be a walking mystery because he surely is a walking miracle.

Through the leading and the power of the Holy Spirit, the Christian is involved in a daily life and habit that cannot be explained. A Christian should have upon him an element that is beyond psychology - beyond all natural laws and into spiritual laws.

I think in our witness and ministries, we Christians should be men and women out of the fire. Because our God is holy, He is actively hostile to sin. God can only burn on and on against sin forever.

It matters not how great the sin. To us the message is given, and we may echo it back to the Throne of Grace. It is the deep and inspired petition breathed long ago from the lips of David: "For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great" (Psalm 25:11)

~A. W. Tozer~

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Saved to Worship

"For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit ... and have no confidence in the flesh" (Philippians 3:3)

Even in our Christian circles we are prone to depend upon techniques and methods in the work that Christ has given us to do. Without a complete dependence upon the Holy Spirit we can only fail. If we have been misled to believe that we can do Christ's work ourselves, it will never be done.

The man whom God will use must be undone. He must be a man who has seen the King in His beauty. Let us  never take anything for granted about ourselves, my brother or sister.

I tell you again that God has saved us to be worshipers. may God show us a vision of ourselves that will disvalue us to the point of total devaluation. From there He can rise us up to worship Him and to praise Him and to witness.

There is no part of our existence which God cannot touch. There is no place in our varied experience where He cannot meet us. His humanity is as broad as ours. This is the secret of all-sufficiency - the friendship of Jesus, the indwelling life of Christ, our union heart to heart with One who, as no other friend could possibly do, lives out His very life in ours.

~A. W. Tozer~