“You may read your Bible, and pray over it till you die; you may wait on the preached Word every Sabbath-day, . . . [But] if you are not brought to cleave to him, to look to him, to believe in him, to cry out with inward adoration: “My Lord, and my God”-”How great is his goodness! How great is his beauty!”-then the outward observance of the ordinances is all in vain to you.” So the key to his holiness and his preaching was not merely stated times of meditation on God’s word. It was pressing into Christ through the word. The written word became the window through which he gazed on the glories of Christ-the beauties of the Rose. This was the key to his constant communion with Jesus, which was the key to his holiness and preaching.
Tozer wrote in his introduction to The Pursuit of God, "Others before me have much further into these holy mysteries... but if my flame is not large it is yet real...". There's a joke on the Simpson's about Milhouse's dad who writes a song called 'Can I borrow a feeling?'. It seems to me that it is given to us sometimes in reading Christian biography (as it must have been so frequently to Tozer) to borrow, not a feeling but a flame. To know, for a moment, someone else's knowing of God from their own peculiar vantage: behold the Lamb of God! Like some strange Airbnb, it is ours (momentarily) and we repose in the very heart of another saints knowing, as though, for a moment, it were our own heart as well, and their apprehension of God, their particular 'room with a view', is, for that moment our own: Augustine's desires, David's 'torrent of spiritual desire' (Tozer again)... McCheyne: Can I borrow a feeling? (Can I borrow a flame?)
I love this!✨Very well thought out and I like how you pulled the Simpsons into this, which makes it a great example of how we can use a newer show as a reference to reinforce our understanding of theology, particularly in the classroom. 👏🏼
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help us to look to You more Lord! may we cherish our time with You!
I wish I walked with Jesus all day.
Jesus lives! ♥️ and is Yahweh God 🙏🏻 Christ ✝️ and King 👑
100% spot on about the distraction of entertainment
So beautiful to walk with Crist every day. Thanks
*Christ, thank you very much. Jesus loves you.
Amen
“You may read your Bible, and pray over it till you die; you may wait on the preached Word every Sabbath-day, . . . [But] if you are not brought to cleave to him, to look to him, to believe in him, to cry out with inward adoration: “My Lord, and my God”-”How great is his goodness! How great is his beauty!”-then the outward observance of the ordinances is all in vain to you.”
So the key to his holiness and his preaching was not merely stated times of meditation on God’s word. It was pressing into Christ through the word. The written word became the window through which he gazed on the glories of Christ-the beauties of the Rose. This was the key to his constant communion with Jesus, which was the key to his holiness and preaching.
Tozer wrote in his introduction to The Pursuit of God, "Others before me have much further into these holy mysteries... but if my flame is not large it is yet real...". There's a joke on the Simpson's about Milhouse's dad who writes a song called 'Can I borrow a feeling?'. It seems to me that it is given to us sometimes in reading Christian biography (as it must have been so frequently to Tozer) to borrow, not a feeling but a flame. To know, for a moment, someone else's knowing of God from their own peculiar vantage: behold the Lamb of God! Like some strange Airbnb, it is ours (momentarily) and we repose in the very heart of another saints knowing, as though, for a moment, it were our own heart as well, and their apprehension of God, their particular 'room with a view', is, for that moment our own: Augustine's desires, David's 'torrent of spiritual desire' (Tozer again)...
McCheyne: Can I borrow a feeling? (Can I borrow a flame?)
I love this!✨Very well thought out and I like how you pulled the Simpsons into this, which makes it a great example of how we can use a newer show as a reference to reinforce our understanding of theology, particularly in the classroom. 👏🏼