Today, Ask God to Remove Every False Trust

 

          By A. W. Tozer

 

        The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

           who can know it?             -  -  Jeremiah 17:9

 

             Many of us have become extremely skillful in arranging our

         lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being

         embarrassed by its implications.

 

             We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without

         divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it!

             We boast in the Lord, but watch carefully that we never get

         caught depending on Him!

 

             To many, Christ is little more than an idea, or at best an ideal:

         He is not a fact!  They talk as if He were real and act as if He

         were not.

 

            We can prove our faith by our committal to it---and in no

         other way!

 

             Any belief that does not command the one who holds it, is

         not a real belief: it is a pseudo belief only.  And it might

         shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly

         face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the

         fires of practical living!

 

             What we need very badly these days is a company of

         Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely

         now, as they must do at the last day.  For each of us the

         time is surely coming when we shall have nothing but

         God!

 

             Today is the best time to invite God to remove every

         false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding

         places, and to bring us out into the open where we can

         discover for ourselves whether we actually trust Him.

         This is a harsh cure, but it is a sure one! 

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         Yours in Christ,

         Paul N. F.