Tozer in the Morning – On Being Inwardly Christian
Fellowship, committees and clubs are all right under the right circumstances, but this kind of an answer to that kind of a problem presupposes that those who give the answer have misuderstood the problem. There are three things they misunderstand. First, they misunderstand the nature of Christian faith. Christian faith is inward, not outward. It is of the spirit and not of the flesh. The kingdom of God is within you, Christ dwells in your heart, and “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27) is the burning core of the Christian faith. So Christianity, the true Christian faith, is inward in nature–we are to be inwardly Christians. It is inside, somewhere in the spirit, soul and heart–the inner person–that we get into the rut. Because the problem is inward, it is ridiculous to say, “All right. The inner person, the spirit of me, the inner shrine of me, is in a rut. It isn’t where it ought to be, so let’s eat something.”
Tozer in the Evening – CHILD OF TWO WORLDS
In the kingdom of God, the surest way to lose something is to try to protect it, and the best way to keep it is to let it go. This was the word of our Lord Jesus Christ: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross!” Christ turned from the fallen world of Adam and spoke about another world altogether, a world where Adam’s philosophy is invalid and his technique inoperative. He spoke of the kingdom of God whose laws are exactly opposite to those of the kingdom of men. So, the true Christian is a child of two worlds. He lives among fallen men, but when he is regenerated, he is called to live according to the laws and principles that underlie the new kingdom. He may, then, find himself trying to live a heavenly life after an earthly pattern-and this is what Paul called “carnal” living. That is why it is vitally important to move up into the life of the Spirit of God. Give up your earthly “treasures” and the Lord will keep them for you unto life eternal!