GOD-HUNGRY SOULS

By A. W. Tozer

So when we preach about Christ dying to save them,
the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all
nonsense.                               ~ ~ 1 Corinthians 1:23

  The Greek philosopher Pythagoras divided men into
three classes: 1. Seekers after knowledge; 2. Seekers
after honor; 3. Seekers after gain.

   I wonder why he failed to notice two other classes:
those who are not seeking anything and those who are
seekers after God.

  Let us add them to his list:
  4. Seekers  after  nothing.  These  are  the  human
vegetables who live by their glands and their instincts.  I
refer to the millions of normal persons who have allowed
their magnificent intellectual equipment to wither away
from lack of exercise.  Their reading matter is the sports
page and the comic section; their music is whatever is
popular and handy -- and loud!

  5. Seekers after God. I am thinking of men and women
who are God-hungry souls, though their numbers may not
be large.  By nature they are no better than the rest of
mankind, and by practice they have sometimes been
worse.  The one sign of their divine election is their
satiable thirst after the Source of their being.  Thank the
Lord for seekers after God and their destiny lies in the
hand of the One who gave His only begotten Son to die
for the life of the world!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.