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.