LET US BE THANKFUL

By A. W. Tozer

Giving thanks always. . . in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 5:20)

    To be grateful to God's servants is to be grateful to God;
and it follows that in a very real sense we thank God when
we thank His people!

    We will always have spiritual leaders, and I think we make
two mistakes in our attitudes toward them. One is not being
sufficiently grateful to them. The other is in following them
too slavishly.

    The first is a sin of omission, and because it is something
that is not there, it is not likely to be noticed as a sin that is
plainly present.

    We do make a serious mistake when we become so attached
to the preaching or writing of a great Christian leader that we
accept his teaching without daring to examine it.  We should
follow men only as they follow the Lord. We should keep an
open mind lest we become blind followers of a man whose
breath is in his nostrils.

    Learn from every holy man and his ministry.  Be grateful
to every one of them and thankful for them,  and then
follow Christ!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.