What Good Is It?

From tomorrow's daily dose of Tozer:

What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship--an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden? If we've lost that, why build another church? Why make more converts to an effete Christianity? Why bring people to follow after a Savior so far off that He doesn't own them?
(A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God)

Comments

[Caroline Ramsey]

25 years later, I still count reading Tozer's "Knowledge of the Holy" as one of the most important sections of my life. I was a student and read a chapter a night - I really couldn't handle more. I had a dictionary open beside me, because I couldn't understand all the words he used!

but wow, I remember after reading chapter on Daniel, just spending time on my knees in awe .. and fear of a Holy God.

[Garth]

We are revisiting those questions again ourselves at the moment. though we find ourselves even involved in passionate activities outside the church serving people, if we neglect our connection with Him and continue on spiritual auto-pilot, we are no more 'christian' than the person who does the same things yet doesn't know Christ!