Redemption: A Moral Restoration to the Divine Image by AW Tozer

Redemption: A Moral Restoration to the Divine Image by AW Tozer

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means…. 2 Thessalonians 3:16

Symmetry is a right proportion of parts in relation to each other and to the whole. By this simple definition symmetry of character is both highly desirable and extremely difficult to attain. Yet it is precisely what Christ had in supreme degree and what every one of us needs if we are to become saints in something beside name!

We can hardly conceive of God’s creating us in such a way that we should be forced to sacrifice one good thing to attain another.

If redemption is a moral restoration to the divine image, (and it must be that ultimately), then we may expect one of the first acts of God in the Christian’s life to be a kind of moral tuning-up, a bringing into harmony the discordant elements within the personality, an adjustment of the soul to itself and to God. And that He does just this is the testimony of everyone who has been truly converted!

The new believer may state it in other language and the emotional lift he enjoys may be so great as to prevent calm analysis, but the gist of his testimony will be that he has found peace, a peace he can actually feel! The twists and tensions within his heart have corrected themselves as a result of his new orientation to Christ.

He can then sing,

 

“Now rest, my long-divided heart;

Fixed on this blissful center rest.”