Status Updates From The Pursuit of God

Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore. “It thundered,” we exclaim, and go our earthly way. But still the Voice sounds and searches. The order and life of the world depend upon that Voice, but men are mostly too busy or too stubborn to give attention.

“In the beginning God.” Not matter, for matter is not self-causing. It requires an antecedent cause, and God is that Cause. Not law, for law is but a name for the course which all creation follows. That course had to be planned, and the Planner is God. Not mind, for mind also is a created thing and must have a Creator back of it. In the beginning God, the uncaused Cause of matter, mind and law.”

On Rightly Ordered Loves:
“Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace may in his moral derangement … In exalting God over all he finds his own highest honor upheld.” - Tozer

I still think Tozer has no room in his ideas for depression or the dark night of the soul, and that really bothers me. However, I did think chapters 7 and 8 were actually good and a very different feel from his earlier chapters.

This is one of the most marvelous books I have ever read. I have marked something in almost every paragraph of every section. It is evident from his writing that A.W. Tozer maintained a personal and very intimate relationship with God. I cannot help thinking of King David and the Psalms. This book is the same kind of love letter to the Lord.