Something to sink your teeth into
From A.W. Tozer's "The Pursuit of God":
... the scribe tells us what he he has read, and the prophet tells what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are overrun today with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the wonder that is God.
posted by Bobby @ 9:38 AM
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4 Comments:
Now that's deep.
First of all, Tozer's The Pursuit of God is one of the BEST books I have ever read.
And this is so true---some friends and I were kind of talking about this the other night at dinner. We were saying how not only our lives but our "witness" is adversely affected when we are not spending time with God and his Word. The reason for this is that a witness can only bear witness to something they have seen or experienced. If we're not living in freedom or joy or forgiveness, how can we share it with others?
Kinda goes along with Matthew 7:3-5
And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye[a] when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying, `Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,' when you can't see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log from your own eye; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye.
We really do have to already experience that joy in order to witness, we must have already been there before we lead or witness to others.
Practice what we preach as our lives and how it is lived will be the witness and not just our words.
poetic
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