God's Voice Still Entreats Lost Mankind

 

                                        By A. W. Tozer

 

        For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for

         the manifestation of the sons of God. For we know that

         the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together

         until now.  Romans 8:19, 22

 

               Why is it that the shining world of which men have

        dreamed, and that every man secretly believes is some-

        where before him, is nevertheless lost to men?

 

               It can only be because we are out of the way.

 

               The world we inhabit is a lost world. It is a sick, fallen

        planet upon which we ride. The sacred revelation

        declares plainly that the inhabitants of the world are also

        lost, by a mighty, calamitous visitation of woe which is

        still upon them.

 

               But with this, it also tells us a glorious fact--that this

         lost race has not been given up!

 

               Thankfully, there is a voice that calls, a voice that

         entreats! If we were not lost, there would be no voice

         behind us saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it."

 

               I say again that we have not been given up. That is

         plain from the Book of Genesis. Recall that the sound of

         God's gentle voice was heard saying, "Adam, where art

         thou?" --- and that voice has never died out!

 

              All of His entreating calls blend into one, whether it be

         the voice of God's love, or the voice of Jesus' blood, or

         the voice of conscience, or the voice of the dead or of the

         living, or of the lost or of the saved!

 

           So, the holy writer says the lost planet is full of vanity

         and has lost its meaning, crying like a woman in travail

         but waiting, as it were, to be born again into the liberty

         of the sons of God, and saved from decay and

         corruption!

 

 

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        Yours in Christ,

         Paul N. F.