OBEDIENCE IS BETTER

By A. W. Tozer

Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on
unto perfection.            --Hebrews 6:1

    The writer to the Hebrews long ago pointed out that
some professed Christians were marking time and getting
nowhere! They had had opportunity to grow---but they
had not grown. They had had sufficient time to mature,
yet they were still babes.

    So, he plainly exhorted them to leave their meaningless
religious round and press on to perfection.

    It is possible to have motion without progress, and this
describes much of the activity among Christians today. It
is simply lost motion! It boils down to this---it is possible
that we may attend church for a lifetime and be none the
better for it. I think we can say that most Christians have
no  clear  end  toward  which  they  are  striving.  On the
endless religious merry-go-round they continue to waste
time and energy.

    A Christian cannot hope for the true manifestation of
God while he lives in a state of disobedience.

        Let a man refuse to obey God on some clear point,
and the rest of his religious activity will be wasted.
The instructed and obedient Christian will yield to God
as the clay yields to the potter, and will relish every
moment in church!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.