The Pursuit of God

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A week or so ago I won a giveaway from this insightful lady. It was the first thing I've ever won (besides a sodoku book at my high school gradfest--talk about exciting huh). But this was so much more than a sodoku book... It's a book from A. W. Tozer called "The Pursuit of God."

I started reading about fifteen minutes ago and have only gotten through the Preface before I had to share! This book is good! I already feel a deep connection with its contents, topics which Meg and I have had several conversations about. Isn't that the greatest feeling? When you feel strongly about an idea that it seems people are missing and then you encounter a book, written well before your time, speaking of the same idea in such a way that it's like they were in your brain but were able to put it out into the world in a more eloquent and thought provoking way than you ever could.


Books find me at just the right time, when those relating thoughts are at their strongest and I know that it's God, because if I were to find those books by chance, I don't think it would always happen in such perfect timing.

So far, this book is about how many people in Christianity have become so based in the fundamentals that they don't search for God with their whole hearts or connect with his Presence in their daily lives and this book will help people to see that the greatest thing we can do in our lives is pursue God. In one of our talks, we were saying how people in the western culture don't seem to realize how much power is in their lives because of Jesus and how faith is not just some set of beliefs, but a real way of living where you see God working and moving. Faith has been dumbed down to a list of moral codes upon which we tend to judge ourselves and others, but really it's an active state of living that should change every aspect of our lives. Although I do have a strong passion for people seeing the true life that God brings, I know I haven't grasped this concept fully either.

I'm so excited to work my way through this book and to share with you along the way. On another post sometime I might share a few excerpts from it that have already gotten my blood pumping! If this sort of thing interests you, I definitely recommend this read.