This is a great Tozer devo. We always hear people talking about "not settling" for the good things in life, or not settling for the right job or the person. But how often do we as Christians settle for God's best in our lives? How often do we settle for a shallow relationship with the Creator of the universe? If you invest time into your friendships and relationships here on earth, but don't take time to spend with your Savior you are settling for less than what He has for you, you are missing out! Settling for less does not necessarily mean you are not saved...I'm not saying that, but why would you want to have a relationship that does not go beyond Sundays and church. I promise, your life will be transformed when you begin to spend more time with Him.
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should
obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments
of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness to God.
--Romans 6:12-13
"It is disheartening to those who care, and surely a great grief to
the Spirit, to see how many Christians are content to settle for
less than the best. Personally I have for years carried a burden of
sorrow as I have moved among evangelical Christians who somewhere
in their past have managed to strike a base compromise with their
heart's holier longings and have settled down to a lukewarm,
mediocre kind of Christianity utterly unworthy of themselves and of
the Lord they claim to serve. And such are found everywhere....
Every man is as close to God as he wants to be; he is as holy and
as full of the Spirit as he wills to be....
Yet we must distinguish wanting from wishing. By "want" I mean
wholehearted desire. Certainly there are many who wish they were
holy or victorious or joyful but are not willing to meet God's
conditions to obtain.
-AW Tozer - That Incredible Christian, 64.
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