LET US BE THANKFUL

 

By A. W. Tozer

 

Giving thanks always. . . in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Ephesians 5:20)

 

    To be grateful to God's servants is to be grateful to God;

and it follows that in a very real sense we thank God when

we thank His people!

 

    We will always have spiritual leaders, and I think we make

two mistakes in our attitudes toward them. One is not being

sufficiently grateful to them. The other is in following them

too slavishly.

 

    The first is a sin of omission, and because it is something

that is not there, it is not likely to be noticed as a sin that is

plainly present.

 

    We do make a serious mistake when we become so attached

to the preaching or writing of a great Christian leader that we

accept his teaching without daring to examine it.  We should

follow men only as they follow the Lord. We should keep an

open mind lest we become blind followers of a man whose

breath is in his nostrils.

 

    Learn from every holy man and his ministry.  Be grateful

to every one of them and thankful for them,  and then

follow Christ! 

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.