WHO HEARS THE CALL OF GOD?

By A. W. Tozer

Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.                                    - John 6:68

  Who can deny that there are certain persons who, though still unconverted, nevertheless differ from the crowd, marked out of God, stricken with an interior wound and susceptible to the call of God?

  In the prayer of Jesus in John 17:11, He said:
 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

 Surely no man is ever the same after God has
laid His hand upon him. He will have certain marks, perhaps some not easy to detect.

  First might be a deep reverence for divine things.  A sense of the sacred must be present or there can be no receptivity to God and truth.

  Another mark is great moral sensitivity.  When God begins to work in a man to bring him to salvation, He makes him acutely sensitive to evil.

  Another mark of the Spirit's working is a mighty moral discontent. 

  It does take a work of God in a man to sour him on the world and to turn him against himself; yet until this has happened he is psychologically unable to repent and
believe!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.