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And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25

Monday, December 11, 2017

Good morning Zebras,

As suggested I purchased something to make my artificial tree smell “real.”  It didn’t work. Maybe if you had never smelled a real tree, it would fool you, but if you know what a real tree smells like, this thing smells like a cheap imitation. 

The same is true of the Spirit of God, if you have never experienced the power and presence of the Holy Spirit you can be satisfied with something less.  But once you have talked to God “face to face” as a man speaks to his friend, nothing else will do.

Tozer's thoughts on the same subject:

“The average Christians’ progress today is not sufficient to satisfy the longings of the seeker after God. They want something better than that.  The average Christian today does not make much spiritual progress at all.  He is converted, joins the Church, and five years later he is right back where he started…That is not satisfactory to those who seek and thirst and hunger after God.

Such seekers after God are impatient with the substitutes being offered today.  When you do not have anything real inside of you, you try to get something on the outside that suggests something real.  It is a well-known fact that when the fire goes out in the furnace, they paint the outside to make it look as it the

fire was still there.

Unfortunately, the Church is the same.  And this even includes evangelical and so-called gospel churches.  Something from its heart has been lost, so bangles and dangles are used on the outside to pretend there is something real on the inside.  But you cannot fool seekers after God with kind of thing.  They know better.”

I love you Zebras, and I love God’s Church and I pray for the day when the men of God take the pulpit and preach with such power that the entire congregation falls to their knees and exclaims with one voice: “The LORD He is God! The LORD-He is God! (1 Kings 18:39)

Love,

Jill

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