Finding

Years have passed since Tozer, my father, and others, spoke a clear message of warning to the church.
Their word was for their time.
Their generation has passed and the time of warning has passed.

Now, as in the times when the Old Testament prophets spoke, there are no  second chances.

Now we have church whose main aim is to keep the people happy at all costs...
nobody wants to give the bad news ... nobody wants to awaken.
God's judgements are as sure as His promises, and not a whit less.

For the follower of God some things are sure:
God is an unchanging God,
and His love and care for His own is unchanging.

"Surely," says Isaiah.
"Surely He hath borne our griefs." (Is. 53.4)

In a a world grown weary, stumbling in darkness, 
a world where "all things are valid" but none provide solutions,
the Word of God endures unchangeable.
Heaven and earth may pass away but this "surely" can never pass.

The saints of bygone ages were spoken of as being conscious of heaven opening at their right hand and hell opening at their feet.
That is to say that they were always conscious, in all their days, of living in the presence of eternal certainties.
There is no greater consciousness than this - an awareness of Reality!

How great is the danger of the loss of this consciousness.
     Our lives and our prayers depend upon us being awake!

Why does the apostle cry to us to awake? (Eph. 5.14)
It is because he sees we are asleep - 
     lulled into unawareness by our surroundings ... 
          an unawareness which is a foretaste of death.

Heaven will be the great awakening ... no more night ... no more sleep.
But Light is also the portion of God's provision here ... clarity and vision in place of shadows.

Each one of us must find God for himself.
     God speaks to each person in an individual way -
          a way he will understand.

All our learning and all our endeavors fall short in the knowledge of God.
     The secret is in the focus of our attention and nothing more. 
          The aim is not "learning" all about Him,
               but "being" like Him.
Beyond knowledge, Transformation is God's gift to His own.

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, 
     are changed into the same image from glory to glory, 
          even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2Cor 3.18)