No short cuts
May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children through the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the true value of nothing?
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly in short lessons; but such wishes are vain. No short cut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: the man who would know God must give time to Him.
posted by Milton Stanley at 2:18 PM
6 Comments:
Simply put: Whoa! Tozer is so awesome, always incredibly timely. I need to get back to Tozer soon. Great quote, Milton!
But if we would only accept the "hard truth", that truth would cease being perceived as hard and become a great blessing, I'm sure!
Thanks for passing this along. I am glad that the promise mentioned by James always comes true: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you!
Glad you like it, Bob. I think we're both reading Tozer books right now, aren't we?
True, Kathy.
Amen, Bill.
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