As Holy As You Want to Be

[Chad]

As Holy As You Want to Be
A.W. Tozer

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. --Matthew 5:6

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Our Lord placed this beyond dispute when He said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Hunger and thirst are physical sensations which, in their acute stages, may become real pain. It has been the experience of countless seekers after God that when their desires became a pain they were suddenly and wonderfully filled. The problem is not to persuade God to fill us, but to want God sufficiently to permit Him to do so. The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness. Born After Midnight, 8.

"Lord, quiet my heart today and fill me with this holy longing. I don't want to be contented with my present condition; I long for that vacuum of desire into which the Holy Spirit can rush. Amen."

 

[Tyler]

Nice post . I have also found this true in my own life...you can only receive if you are truly willing to give in and give your old life.

Unfortunately, people, myself included, often do not want to give up all they actually can and because of that do not receive as great revelation and filling as they want.

It is kind of odd because we want it, which is probably our spirit, but we don't want it - most likely the flesh. It all depends on which will prevail for its hunger...the spirit or the flesh...

Thanks for giving me something to ponder in my own life friend!


Your brother in Christ,
Tyler

GBU

 

[SpiritLedEd]

As Holy As You Want to Be
A.W. Tozer
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

In Exodus 20:23 NIV, the Lord said "Do not put any gods alongside me," yet the average believer living in a developed countriy does precicely that. Instead of making the Lord first in their hearts so He can build a thirst for Himself in them, their number one priority is God AND....(fill in the blanks) That's why many Christians are so shaken by the current condition of the world's economies. The worldly props they've put alongside God are being pulled out from under them.

SLE