Quote by Tozer
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity!
Modern Civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible, multiplying distractions and beating us down by destroying our solitude.
"Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still" is a wise and healing counsel, but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and the television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion.
One way the civilized would destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts. Our "vastly imporoved methods of communication" of which the shortsighted boast so loudly now enable a few men in strategic centers to feed into millions of minds alien thought stuff, ready-made and predigested.
The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. Even the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are.
However, there are some of God's children who have had enough. They want to relearn the ways of solitude and simplicity and gain the infinite riches of the interior life. They want to discover the blessedness of what thas been called "spiritual aloneness" -a discipline that will go far in making us acquainted with God and our own souls!
-Tozer
My comment...."And what would Tozer say now about the tape recorder, CD player, computer, etc.? Where in the world can we now find solitude and quietness? Not much of anywhere except out in God's creation....far away from the crowds. :)"
Comments?
Modern Civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible, multiplying distractions and beating us down by destroying our solitude.
"Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still" is a wise and healing counsel, but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and the television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion.
One way the civilized would destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts. Our "vastly imporoved methods of communication" of which the shortsighted boast so loudly now enable a few men in strategic centers to feed into millions of minds alien thought stuff, ready-made and predigested.
The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. Even the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are.
However, there are some of God's children who have had enough. They want to relearn the ways of solitude and simplicity and gain the infinite riches of the interior life. They want to discover the blessedness of what thas been called "spiritual aloneness" -a discipline that will go far in making us acquainted with God and our own souls!
-Tozer
My comment...."And what would Tozer say now about the tape recorder, CD player, computer, etc.? Where in the world can we now find solitude and quietness? Not much of anywhere except out in God's creation....far away from the crowds. :)"
Comments?