Pursuit

I just started reading 'The Pursuit of God' by A. W. Tozer. I read the first two chapters today during my lunch and I would have read more if I hadn't been interrupted! I read those same two chapters once I got home from work. That's not to say that I didn't understand or get anything out of them, but rather because there was just so much that I did get out of them that I wanted more, and more I got! At the end of each chapter he wrote a prayer. I want to share those prayers with you because they are now the prayers of my heart. This book is great, if you haven't read it, go read it! If you have read, go read it again!!


O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' name. Amen. (The Pursuit of God, chapter 1: Following Hard After God, pg. 20)


Father, I want to know Thee, but my cowardly heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter and dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus' name. Amen. (The Pursuit of God, chapter 2: The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, pg. 30)