Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for October 20

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 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for October 20

Tozer in the Morning
PREACH A WHOLE CHRIST

I reject the human insistence among us that Christ may sustain a divided relationship toward us in this life. I am aware that this is now so commonly preached that to oppose it or object to it means that you are sticking your neck out and you had best be prepared for what comes. But, I am forced to ask: how can we insist and teach that our Lord Jesus Christ can be our Savior without being our Lord? How can so many continue to teach that we can be saved without any thought of obedience to our Sovereign Lord? I am satisfied in my own heart that when a man or a woman believes on the Lord Jesus Christ he or she must believe on the whole Lord Jesus Christ-not making any reservation! How can a teaching be justified when it encourages sinners to use Jesus as a Savior in their time of need, without owing Him obedience and allegiance? I believe we need to return to preaching a whole Christ to our needy world!


Tozer in the Evening
Heart Hunger

In nature everything moves in the direction of its hungers. In the spiritual world it is not otherwise. We gravitate toward our inward longings, provided of course that those longings are strong enough to move us. Impotent dreaming will not do. The religious urge that is not followed by a corresponding act of the will in the direction of that urge is a waste of emotion. The awe-inspiring power of a discharge of lightning may dissipate itself in the atmosphere and accomplish nothing, while a flashlight battery may provide illumination for a miner hours on end. One is a dramatic display of immense power without direction and the other a quiet application of modest energy to an intelligent purpose. 

It is my conviction that much, very much, prayer for and talk about revival these days is wasted energy. Ignoring the confusion of figures, I might say that it is hunger that appears to have no object; it is dreamy wishing that is too weak to produce moral action. It is fanaticism on a high level for, according to John Wesley, "a fanatic is one who seeks desired ends while ignoring the constituted means to reach those ends."

Bibliography
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was an American pastor and writer in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, born in La Jose, Pennsylvania. He pastored Southside Alliance Church in Chicago from 1928 to 1959 and Avenue Road Church in Toronto from 1959 until his death there in 1963. From 1950 he edited The Alliance Weekly (later The Alliance Witness). His best-known books are "The Pursuit of God" (1948) and "The Knowledge of the Holy" (1961).

Sources: Wikipedia

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