God's Voice Still Entreats Lost Mankind
By A. W. TozerFor the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of God. For we know that
the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now. Romans 8:19, 22
Why is it that the shining world of which men have
dreamed, and that every man secretly believes is some-
where before him, is nevertheless lost to men?
It can only be because we are out of the way.
The world we inhabit is a lost world. It is a sick, fallen
planet upon which we ride. The sacred revelation
declares plainly that the inhabitants of the world are also
lost, by a mighty, calamitous visitation of woe which is
still upon them.
But with this, it also tells us a glorious fact--that this
lost race has not been given up!
Thankfully, there is a voice that calls, a voice that
entreats! If we were not lost, there would be no voice
behind us saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it."
I say again that we have not been given up. That is
plain from the Book of Genesis. Recall that the sound of
God's gentle voice was heard saying, "Adam, where art
thou?" --- and that voice has never died out!
All of His entreating calls blend into one, whether it be
the voice of God's love, or the voice of Jesus' blood, or
the voice of conscience, or the voice of the dead or of the
living, or of the lost or of the saved!
So, the holy writer says the lost planet is full of vanity
and has lost its meaning, crying like a woman in travail
but waiting, as it were, to be born again into the liberty
of the sons of God, and saved from decay and
corruption!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.