The Devotional Life
Is Almost Crowded Out by AW Tozer
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own
business… That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without…. 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 12
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? (Not to mention
the IPOD, the Smart Phone and the Computer – of which I type) 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 world destroys men is
by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts. Our “vastly improved
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 has been called “spiritual aloneness”—a discipline that
will go far in making us acquainted with God and our own souls!
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