God Himself Awaits Our Response to His Presence

By A. W. Tozer

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8

    A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us,
embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves,
waiting for us to recognize it.  God Himself is here waiting
for our response to His Presence.  This eternal world will
come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its
reality.

    As we begin to focus upon God the things of the spirit will
take shape before our inner eyes. Obedience to the word of
Christ will bring an inward revelation of the Godhead. John 14:21-23

    This is not by any trick of the imagination.  May we not safely
conclude that, as the realities of Mount Sinai were apprehended
by the senses, so the realities of Mount Zion are to be grasped by
the soul?  The soul has eyes with which to see and ears with
which to hear!

    Such an inward revelation of the Godhead will give acute
perception enabling us to see God even as is promised to the pure
in heart.  A new God-consciousness will seize upon us and we
shall begin to taste and hear and inwardly feel the God who is our
life and our all.

   There will be seen the constant shining of the light that lighteth
every man that cometh into the world.  More and more, as our
faculties grow sharper and more sure, God will become to us the
great All, and His Presence the glory and wonder of our lives!
This is what will make heaven more real to us than any earthly
thing has ever been.

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.