The Heart That Pants After God!

God has His people in each generation that preaches His Truth. Many come in His name, but are not of Him. You can always recognize them by their fruit, Jesus said.

I think for me the recognition is their lack of love for Christ, is more telling. They don't have that longing and drive. I have seen this for years and I came across a piece that A.W. Tozer wrote in, The Pursuit of God. In the first chapter called, Following Hard After God he says this:

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.

This is a sad state of affairs. This is where America finds herself today. So many tragedies have happened to her. She has let go of The Hand that can hold her about the troubled waters and is drowning in a sea of idleness, negligence of The Scriptures and down right wickedness.

There is no panting after God. Instead there is a weakened gospel that, Dietrich Bonhoeffer called, cheap grace.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

His Grace will cost you everything. It is the treasure hidden in a field, the pearl of great price, the call that will cause men to leave their nets. He paid the down payment and we MUST MAINTAIN IT!

I have been privileged to have been led to the writings of great men of God like : A.W. Tozer, Bonhoeffer, Charles Spurgeon, and Francis Schaeffer, Watchmen nee, and Rees Howells. If you do not possess these authors writings , I employ you to do so. You will learn things you never were taught by your pastor or Sunday school teacher. These men will inspire you to pant after God, just as the little Shulimite girl in Song of Solomon.

He, whose heart pants after God, will not only gain other souls but a wealth of knowledge and wisdom too.