THE NEED FOR REVERENCE

By A. W. Tozer

God is greatly to be feared. . . and to be had in reverence.
                                                                                  (Psalm 89:7)

    Many persons who have been raised in our churches no
longer  think  in  terms  of  reverence,  which  seems  to
indicate that they doubt God's presence is there! Much of
the blame must be placed on the growing acceptance of a
wordly secularism that seems much more appealing than
any real desire for the spiritual life that is pleasing to God.

    We secularize God; we secularize the gospel of Christ
and we secularize worship!

    No great and spiritually minded men of God are going
to come out of such churches, nor any great spiritual
movement of believing prayer and revival. If God is to be
honored and revered and truly worshiped---He may have
to sweep us away and start somewhere else!

    Let us confess that there is a necessity for true worship
among us. If God is who He says He is, and if we are the
believing people of God we claim to be, we must worship
Him! In my own assessment, for men and women to lose
the awareness of God in our midst is a loss too terrible
ever to be appraised!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.