LIGHT — AND SHADOWS

By A. W. Tozer
 

Charity suffereth long, and is kind.   1 Corinthians 13:4
 

  A person once called me to ask this question:
"Mr. Tozer, do you think a person who is really a
Christian can hurt another Christian?"

  There is no easy answer — but I had to reply:
Yes, I think so."

  Why is it that a man can be on his knees one day,
praying earnestly, and the next day be guilty of offending
or injuring another Christian?  I think it is because we are
halfway between heaven and hell.  It is because the
light — and the shadows — fall upon us.

  The best answer is that we are being saved out ot all
these contradictions we find in our lifetime.  Perhaps on
this earth we will never be able to comprehend fully the
awful, terrible price the Lord of all beauty paid to gain
our redemption; to save His people from the ugliness of
sin.

  If you do not know Him and worship Him, if you do not
long to reside where He is, if you have never known
wonder and ecstasy in your soul because of His
crucifixion and resurrection, your claim of Christianity
has little foundation!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.