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Recently, the Lord introduced me to A.W. Tozer. I have been reading one of his works for sometime now, and I will like to share some of it with you. Receive insight and understanding as you read in Jesus name.
Awakened to his need for God
The thing I like about this is that when Jacob awoke from that dream, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” —Genesis 28:16. God was there all the time. He had been there all the time and was patiently waiting for Jacob.
Jacob awoke out of His sleep and suddenly had an awakening of the inner life. He was awakened to the shinning wonder of God and His kingdom. “God is here and I knew it not” is the theme of those who have been awakened to the reality of God; who have been awakened to the fact that we belong to God, and God belongs to us; that we are His, He is ours and we do not belong to anybody else.
We need to be awakened to the fact that we must deal with God who has been following us all this time. This is the mystery, because how can it be that God comes, follows us and introduces this desire into our hearts? I just know that there is something in us akin to God. That does not mean we are saved, because “except ye repent and are born again ye shall likewise perish.” Something in us responds to that Majesty we call God.
God is trying to get the signal through to us, but the ones who are satisfied with what they have hear nothing. Only those like Jacob, who are discontent and uneasy with a bad conscience, see something; they hear something, and they will meet God after all.
We have tried to make God in our image, and because we have made Him in our image, we think we can explain everything He is supposed to do. If you can explain everything about God, it really isn’t God.
Those men who met God had spiritual experiences nobody could define, much less define it themselves. All they could do was stand in silent adoration. All they could do was rejoice. All they could do was enjoy it and thank God and obey God and come back for more and rejoice some more and go obey God some more.
— A.W. TOZER, Culled from Voice of a Prophet
My Commentary:
Many weeks back, I received a word from God. And the first lines went thus: He will come at the place of intersections, He will come at crossroads, He will come at the place of transitions, … Although I did share the word on this platform, I didn’t quite get the complete meaning until days after. Then I understood what God was saying. God hates indecisiveness. He detest double-mindedness. He likes it when your eyes are single. God likes it when you have a plan. And it mustn’t necessarily be a good plan. He just likes for you to have a plan and pursue it. Then He shows up. At the very spot where you are making a decision to do this or that, or have made a decision to go here or there… God shows up and tosses your plan into the air. There He shows you what He would have you do. Spiritual experiences happen in moments like these. A spiritual experience comes to awaken you. It jolts you into God’s reality. But such an experience like the one Jacob had for example, is given to a heart that is dissatisfied with the status quo and is hungry for more…for better... There is a vacuum in everyman that ONLY God can fill. And ONLY those who are dissatisfied with the hollowness of that vacuum will be filled. Be OPEN to God. He ALONE is the other side of the jigsaw that completes us.
Exodus 3:1-2 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
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