Accepting This World as Our Home Is A Calamity

     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.

                                                               --- 1 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.