The Pursuit of God

I was recently given a copy of The Pursuit of God and taking it up this morning, am overcome with desire for a deeper knowledge of my God. The passionate words of A.W. Tozer are burning within me. This man desired God is a palpable way still evident through his writing 60 years later. He had only a primary school formal education, but self taught, prostrated himself before God for Divine change and grew into a man after God's heart.

"The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever."

"O God, be Thou exalted over my possessions. Nothing of earth's treasures shall seem dear unto me if only Thou art glorified in my life. Be
Thou exalted over my friendships. I am determined that Thou shalt be above all, though I must stand deserted and alone in the midst of the earth.
Be Thou exalted above my comforts. Though it may mean the loss of bodily comforts and the carrying of heavy crosses, I shall keep my vow made this day before Thee.
Be Thou exalted over my reputation. Make me ambitious to please Thee even if as a result I must sink into obscurity and my name be forgotten as a dream.
Rise, O Lord, into Thy proper place of honor, above my ambitions, above my likes and dislikes, above my family, my health and even my life itself.
Let me sink that Thou mayest rise above. Ride forth upon me as Thou dist ride into Jerusalem, mounted upon the humble little beast, a colt, the foal of an ass, and let me hear the children cry to Thee, 'Hosanna in the highest.'"

I am hungry for a heart more like that. This book will be an instrument of breaking and refashioning, a refining fire, in my life.