Do we ache for His holy and cleansing preseance? Do we desire to make every day a day that we can lifted up to the Lord of glory as a fragrant aroma, well pleasing to the King? Are we desparate for God? Do we long for His presence, do we hunger and thirst for righteousness?
A.W. Tozier wrote long ago that, "The whole transaction of religious conversion has been made mechanical and spiritless. Faith may now be exercised without a jar to the moral life and without embarrassment to the Adamic ego. Christ may be "received" without creating any special love for Him in the soul of the receiver. The man is "saved" but he is not hungry nor thirst after God. In fact, he is specifically taught to be satisfied and is encouraged to be content with little...The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. We have almost forgotten that God is a person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can. It is inherent in personalitites to be able to know other personalities, but full knowledge of one personality by another cannot be acheived in one encounter. It is only after long and loving mental intercourse that the full possibilities of both can be explored....'This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent (John 17:3. (A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine, pp. 12-13).
I love Christian hymns and the messages, the pathos, the beauty communicated in music, poetry and song...Listen to the lyrics and feel the love an ministry of God's spirit...
Is this the cry of your heart?
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