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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