A Calamity: Accepting This World as Our Home

By A. W. Tozer

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
I John 2:15.

    Of all the calamities that have been visited upon the
world, the surrender of the human spirit to this present
world and its ways is the worst -- without doubt!

    No oriental monarch ever ruled his cowering subjects
with any more cruel tyranny than ‘things’ -- visible
things, audible things, tangible things -- rule mankind.

    That we who were made to communicate with angels
and archangels and seraphim and with the God who
made them all -- that we should settle down here as a
wild eagle of the air come down to scratch in the barn-
yard with the common hens -- this I say is the worst of
anything that has ever come to the world!

    It seems incredible that we who were made for many
worlds should accept this one world as our ultimate
home.

    Man was made in the image of God and is now a
fallen being that has left its place in the celestial world
and has plummeted down like a falling star. Now,
in this world, he has all but forgotten the place from
which he came.

    That is why the devil sees to it that we seldom get
alone with time to think and meditate on the reality of
the other world. For when a man really gets alone, he
senses often that this life in this world is not the
answer -- it is not the end.

   Actually and simply, a Christian is one who dedicates
himself to God to inhabit another and better world!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.