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.
 
        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.