I am currently reading The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer and it is blowing my mind. This quote from chapter 2 “The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing” is profoundly insightful.
The pronouns “my” and “mine” look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us – a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
Faith is not a choice
Something I’ve been reflecting on recently.
Faith is not a thing that can be placed. It is not a commodity that we possess, like so many chips at a casino, to place on a specific number in hopes that the roulette wheel lands on our guess…
Faith is a perception of reality. An “assurance” and a “conviction”.
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