Tozer Devo

With all the talks of the elections and such, this devo, written back in 1966, is SO applicable to our own day and age, not just in the world, but also in the church.

It's always good to search our own hearts, to looks at who we as Christians are supporting, who are we looking to lead us in and out of church? Who do WE support? Anyway, LOVED this devo and wanted to share it!

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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.... Blessed are
the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
--Matthew 5:5-8

"We have but to become acquainted with, or even listen to, the big
names of our times to discover how wretchedly inferior most of them
are. Many appear to have arrived at their present eminence by pull,
brass, nerve, gall and lucky accident. We turn away from them sick to
our stomach and wonder for a discouraged moment if this is the best
the human race can produce. But we gain our self-possession again by
the simple expedient of recalling some of the plain men we know, who
live unheralded and unsung, and who are made of stuff infinitely
finer than the hoarse-voiced braggarts who occupy too many of the
highest offices in the land. . . .

. . . the church also suffers from this evil notion. Christians have
fallen into the habit of accepting the noisiest and most notorious
among them as the best and the greatest. They too have learned to
equate popularity with excellence, and in open defiance of the Sermon
on the Mount they have given their approval not to the meek but to
the self-assertive; not to the mourner but to the self-assured; not
to the pure in heart who see God but to the publicity hunter who
seeks headlines."

-AW Tozer