Long time no post, Tozer was shaking me this morning, thought i would share it.
“Personal Life: People Are What They Think About
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. –Proverbs 4:23
Every person is really what he or she secretly admires. If I can learn what you admire, I will know what you are, for people are what they think about when they are free to think about what they will.
Now, there are times when we are forced to think about things that we do not care to think about at all. All of us have to think about income taxes, but income taxes are not what we want to think about. The law makes us think about them every April. You may find me humped over Form 1040, just like everyone else, but that is not the real me. It is really the man with the tall hat and the spangled stars in Washington who says, “You can’t let it go any longer!” I assure you it is not consentingly done! But if you can find what I think about when I am free to think about whatever I will, you will find the real me. That is true of every one of us.
Your baptism and your confirmation and your name on the church roll and the big Bible you carry–these are not the things that are important to God. You can train a chimpanzee to carry a Bible. Every one of us is the sum of what we secretly admire, what we think about and what we would like to do most if we became free to do what we wanted to do. Faith Beyond Reason, 96.
“Lord, You know the secret thoughts of my heart; nothing is hidden from You. May those thoughts be pure thoughts, pleasing to You, completely under the control of Your Holy Spirit. Amen.” “
good stuff. Tozer rocks my face off.
Tozer’s some good stuff. I’ve downloaded a few of the gazillion audio sermons he has on sermonindex.com but you gotta be in the right mood to listen to him…or else his voice will kinda get to ya.
But until then, I’ll just have Buttons tote around my old Word for me.
ptl bro! i love the way good ‘ol AW phrases these great truths. reminds me of those tozer discussions we had in the intern office. you know the trinity, the father and the son. :)….. i was reading some similar things this morning from a guy named alan redpath. check him out if you haven’t heard of him. good to read your thoughts after so long!