Posted on 05/10/2006 10:34:08 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
One of the marks of our modern time is the fact that many are guilty of merely "nibbling" at the truth of the Christian gospel.
If the cross of Jesus Christ means what it should to us and we know that we must carry it and die on it and then rise and live above it, we will have a constant desire to advance and gain spiritual ground!
The nervous people who want to put on the brakes, who feel the necessity for restraint in matters of spiritual desire and yearning for perfection, often use the expression, "Let's not get fanatical about this."
I can only ask: Is it fanaticism to want to go on until you can perfectly love God and perfectly praise Him?
Is it fanatical to find divine joy leaping up within your heart? Is it fanatical to find the willingness within your heart to say, "Yes. Lord! Yes, Lord!" and thus live daily in the will of God so that you are living in heaven while you are living on the earth?
If this is fanaticism, then it is the fanaticism of the Old Testament patriarchs and the Law; it is the fanaticism of the psalmist and of the prophets and the New Testament writers, as well!
Tozer PING.
I am so thankful for this post and ping. How helpful and encouraging the words of Mr. Tozer are for us in our day. Oh magnify the Lord together with me for this great good gift!
Sorry for the late post. I got caught up in other things. I'll post today's earlier.
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