Me:  Howdy!

Prodigal:  What have you been thinking about over yonder.

Me:  Just what I have been seeing lately!

 

This is from the book The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

 

This is the only real harbinger of revival which I have been able to detect anywhere on the religious horizon.  It may be the cloud the size of a man’s hand for which a few saints here and there have been looking.  It can result in a resurrection of life for many souls and a recapture of that radiant wonder which should accompany any faith in Christ, that wonder which has all but fled the Church of God in our day.

But this hunger must be recognized by our religious leaders.  Current evangelicalism has (to change the figure) laid the altar and divided the sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stories and rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel.  But God be thanked that there are a few who care.  They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile themselves to the continued absence of fire.  They desire God above all.  They are athirst to taste for themselves the “piercing sweetness” of the love of Christ about.  Whom all the holy prophets did write and the psalmists did sing.

 

Thank you that when I look at you.  I know that you are focus on the Lord and you are a leader that has a hunger and that you do have sacrifice in your heart.  Thank you Lord that He placed you in my life!

 

Romans 8:18

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org