Nothing Can Hinder God or a Good Man

    By A. W. Tozer

    If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
    whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
                                                                             -  -  John 7:17

        The notion that hostile persons or unfavorable
    circumstances can prevent the will of God from being
    fulfilled in a human life is altogether erroneous.

       Nothing, no one, can hinder God or a good man!

        It is one of the glories of the Christian faith that it can
    be present in effective power regardless of whether or
    not the moral and political environment is favorable to
    it.  We recall that H. G. Wells once said that he personally
    believed Buddhism to be the best religion, but admitted
    that it could flourish only in countries having a warm
    climate!

        If true religion consisted in outward practices, then it
    could be destroyed by laws forbidding those practices.
    But if the true worshiper is one who worships God in
    spirit and in truth, how can laws or jails or abuses or
    deprivations prevent the spiritual man from worship-
    ing?

      Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God
    and he is instantly free!

    No one can hinder him. It is only when we introduce our
    own will into our relation to God that we get into trouble.
    When we weave into the pattern of our lives threads of
    our own desires we  instantly become subject to
    hindrances from the outside.

      The essence of spiritual worship is to love supremely,
    to trust confidently, to pray without ceasing and to seek
    to be Christlike and holy, doing all the good we can for
    Christ's sake.

        How impossible for anyone to hinder that kind of
    "practice"!

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   Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.