![]() To pursue God is to know Him, and in our knowing be drawn in. "Arise, O sleeper!" is his word to us, and yet if we heed the call, we will see that to arise is not to stand, but to kneel before the God of heaven in humble contemplation. Tozer writes from his knees, a posture fit for presenting the character of God in all its demanding grandeur. ![]() He reminds us that life apart from God is really no life at all. With prophetic vigor and flowing prose, he urges us to replace low thoughts of God with lofty ones, to quiet our lives so we can know GodÂ’s presence. Chapter 1: Following Hard After God Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine (Camp Hill, PA: Wing Spread, 2007). So it is in this Christian classic by the late pastor and evangelist A. ![]() Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. Tozer's bestseller, this book has been called "one of the all-time most inspirational books" by a panel of Christian magazine writers. The Pursuit of God teaches us the value of knowing God through our personal experience instead of thinking of Him as an abstract being. ![]()
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