LET…. MY…. PEOPLE…. GO !!
Chapter twenty-eight
A.W. Tozer believed there is ranking of christians (various levels of prominence) in heaven just as there is ranking of angels. Makes sense. Since earned “treasures in heaven” are eternal, some will be eternally richer than others and some will be eternally poorer. And eternal treasures in heaven will be relative to depth of relationship with our Lord Jesus here on earth.
The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer
Chapter 7: Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by the evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely the same train of thought, a kind of “party line” from which it is scarcely safe to depart. A half-century of this in America has made us smug and content. We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying.
Chapter 7: When the habit of inwardly gazing Godward becomes fixed within us we shall be ushered onto a new level of spiritual life more in keeping with the promises of God and the mood of the New Testament. The Triune God will be our dwelling place even while our feet walk the low road of simple duty here among men.
Chapter 8: Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all he finds his own highest honor upheld.
Chapter 8: Another saying of Jesus, and a most disturbing one, was put in the form of a question, “How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God alone?” If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. Is this sin at the root of religious unbelief?
Chapter 8: The whole course of the life is upset by failure to put God where He belongs. We exalt ourselves instead of God and the curse follows.
Quoted by permission from The New Christian Classics Libraryhttps://calvin.quadweb.site/giving/ccel.