![]() The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. ![]() … We are satisfied to rest in our judicial possessions and for the most part we bother ourselves very little about the absence of personal experience. According to its teachings we are in the Presence of God positionally, and nothing is said about the need to experience that Presence actually. It fails to stress the Christian’s privilege of present realization. That type of Christianity which happens now to be in the vogue knows this Presence only in theory. At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence. The Presence of God is the central fact of Christianity. ![]() Tozer characterizes modern evangelicalism as laying out the parts of the sacrifice on the altar and being “satisfied to count the stones and rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel.” (p.9) ![]() Especially helpful are Tozer’s observations about the necessity for the believer to follow hard after God relationally and the nature of faith as “the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.” Nevertheless, many of the points that do come from Scripture are profound and rich, making the small amount of time required to read this book well worth it. Many of Tozer’s points in this book seem to come from his own speculation rather than from Scripture. ![]()
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