OUR RICHEST TREASURE: INNER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
By A. W. Tozer

. . .Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:. . .Behold,
I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land. . . .
                                                               -   -   Deuteronomy 1:6, 8

    Large  numbers  of supposedly sound  Christian believers
know nothing at all about personal communion with God;
and there lies one of the greatest weaknesses of present-day
Christianity!

    And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.  (John 17:3),
and increased knowledge results in a correspondingly larger and
fuller life. So rich a treasure is  this  inward  knowledge  of  God
that  every  other treasure is as nothing compared with it!

  We may count all things of no value and sacrifice them freely
if we may thereby gain a more perfect knowledge of God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. This was Paul's testimony (Phil. 3:7-14) and
it has been the testimony of all great Christian souls who have
followed Christ from Paul's day to ours.

    To know God it is necessary that we be like God to some degree,
for things wholly dissimilar cannot agree, and beings wholly unlike
can never have communion with each other. It is necessary
therefore that we use every means of grace to bring our souls into
harmony with the character of God.

    As we move farther up into the knowledge of Christ we open
new areas of our beings to attack, but what of it? Remember that
spiritual complacency is more deadly than anything the devil can
bring against us in our upward struggle. If we sit still to escape
temptation, then we are being tempted worse than before and
gaining nothing by it.

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.