Tozer has many good observation about a life of faith and good insight can be gained from reading this book. I liked the book (this is my second time through it).

He also emphasizes those to the point of relegating scripture to a close second in matters of faith. He focuses on experience, feeling and hearing God's voice as important to faith. The description of 'down to earth' only goes so far, because Tozer is also very clearly a mystic. He is very well read and often deals with theological topics but he typically scoffs any intellectual dealings with faith and puts forth his down to earth alternative. I hesitate to call Tozer a theologian because his approach to Christianity and the practice of faith is very practical. It was by insight into Real, Simple Being.Īnd that Being, as Love - the Beatles once sang - is ALL YOU NEED. No, friends, it was not by painstakingly memorizing who begat whom in the Book, or studying an ancient language, or even having great insight into the meaning of scripture that Tozer found true meaning in his life. In the robin that woke him up for another day of relentless work, serenading and INSPIRING him. In the dinner that every night, miraculously appeared on the supper table. In his parents’ corrections and disciplines.

Yikes! When the scales fell wonderfully fell from his eyes, he KNEW God’s Love had always pursued HIM. Well, so Tozer then did the impossible - he pursued God. Only the free gift of supernatural Love will. Our work doesn’t save us - never has and never will. How can we be saved, the message probably went? Salvation is a free gift. Brought up poor, hungry and illiterate in rural Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, he rarely knew rest from his labours.īut, meandering brokenly homeward after a gruelling day of back-breaking work, young Aiden heard snippets of a street preacher’s message at the centre of town. If you want frank, straight-up writing shooting straight from the hip, Tozer will deliver. Will you get a second chance? Time will tell. If he can’t make anything of you, into the fire you go. No, we’re a piece of clay in the hands of the Almighty. But wait 20 or 30 years, and SEE what they’ve made of it - for by then, they’ve been given stale black bread for their banquet. And guess what? He’s still right there, showing you a way OUT of your mess. But oh, how you cringe when the storm clouds gather. We’ll find a certain lady deucedly attractive - and He’ll shout, “now what in tarnation d’you think YOU’RE doing?” We’ll ask Him for a special favour - and He’ll heap it into our lap a HUNDREDFOLD. We’ll try telling a barefaced lie - and God will hound us down. Tozer says if we seek meaning in our lives by pursuing a Real, Living God, we will soon find the tables turned.įor so desirous is He of giving true meaning to anyone who seeks him, God will then start pursuing US.

The pursuit of god a 31 day experience