WHAT DO WE LOVE?

By A. W. Tozer

But we all . . . are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by  the Spirit of the Lord.
                                  --2 Corinthians 3:18

                  God wants us to recognize that human nature is in a
formative state and that it is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.

                  Men and women are being molded by their affinities, shaped by their affections and powerfully transformed by the artistry of their loves. In the unregenerate world of Adam this produces day by day tragedies of cosmic proportions!

                  For His own children, our heavenly Father has provided right moral objects for admiration and love.  They are not God but they are nearest to God; we cannot love Him without loving them.

                  I speak of His righteousness; and the heart drawn to righteousness will be repulsed in the same degree by iniquity.  I speak of wisdom, and we admire the Hebrew   prophets, who refused to divorce wisdom from righteousness.

                  I speak also of truth as another object of our Christian love. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "I am the truth" and in so saying  He joined  truth to the  Deity  in  inseparable union.  Thus ­ to love God is to love the truth!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.