Simply, Plainly, Intimately

"As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love" (John 15:9)

God takes great pleasure in having a helpless soul come to Him simply and plainly and intimately. He takes pleasure in having us come to Him. This kind of Christianity doesn't draw big crowds. It draws only those who have their hearts set on God, who want God more than anything else in the world. These people want the spiritual experience that comes from knowing for Himself. They could have everything stripped away from them and still have God.

These people are not vastly numerous in any given locality. This kind of Christianity doesn't draw big crowds, but it is likely to draw the hungriest ones, and thirstiest ones and some of the best ones.

And so God takes great pleasure in having helpless people come to Him, simply and plainly and intimately. He wants us to come without all that great overloading of theology. He wants us to come as simply and as plainly as a little child. And if the Holy Spirit touches you, you'll come like that.

To be able to look into God's face, and know with the knowledge of faith that there is nothing between the soul and Him, is to experience the fullest peace the soul can know.

~A. W. Tozer~
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The Trinity Is Present

"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send ... even the Spirit of truth ... he shall testify of me" (John 15:26)

Who is the Spirit? The Spirit of God, existing in another mode of being than ourselves. He exists as a spirit and not as matter, for He is not matter, but He is God.

He is a Person. It was so believed by the whole Church of Christ down through the years. It was so sung by the hymnists back in the days of the first hymn writers. It is so taught in the Book, all through the Old Testament and the New.

Now what follows from all this? Ah, there is an unseen Deity present, a knowing, feeling Personality, and He is indivisible from the Father and the Son, so that if you were to be suddenly transferred to heaven itself you wouldn't be any closer to God than you are now, for God is already here.

Changing your geographical location would not bring you any nearer to God nor God any nearer to you, because the indivisible Trinity is present.

People grow on us, and the Holy Spirit, being a Person, can grow on us.

It is certainly not speculative that God is able to manifest Himself most in the lives of those who passionately love Him.

~A. W. Tozer~