This book of 365 daily devotions is a distillation of the wisdom of A.W. Tozer, gleaned in his lifelong pursuit of God. Tozer writes for those who want spiritual muscle. His summons is to "put aside the playthings of the material world and thirst for God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American evangelical pastor, speaker, writer, and editor. After coming to Christ at the age of seventeen, Tozer found his way into the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination where he served for over forty years. In 1950, he was appointed by the denomination's General Council to be the editor of "The Alliance Witness" (now "Alliance Life").
Born into poverty in western Pennsylvania in 1897, Tozer died in May 1963 a self-educated man who had taught himself what he missed in high school and college due to his home situation. Though he wrote many books, two of them, "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy" are widely considered to be classics.
A.W. Tozer and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, had seven children, six boys and one girl.
Profound, moving, heart-searching book. A.W. Tozer's writing could have been written today regarding the latest national, international or church news. He waters nothing down, but delivers with conviction and passion the truth as he sees it. I've rarely dog-eared a book as much as I have his devotional or finished a reading being only able to say, wow.
Mainly disagreeing only with his July 5th-"God Never Violates Our Freedom of Choice"-post, I covered many pages highlighting what I hope to go back to, apply, and never forget.
Tozer is strong in his admonishment against sin, but equally encouraging: "He [God] is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He has Himself first supplied....How good it would be if we could learn that God is easy to live with, the sum of all patience, the essence of kindly good will!"