Why Settle Down?

Why should a Christian "settle down" as soon as he has come to know the Lord?

I blame Faulty exposition of the New Testament for stopping many Christians dead in their tracks, causing them to shrug off any suggestion that there is still spiritual advance and progress beckoning them on. 

It is the position of some would-be teachers that everyone who comes into the Kingdom of God by faith immediately obtains all there is of God's spiritual provision. 

I believe that such a teaching is as deadly as cyanide to the individual Christian life. 

It kills all hope of spiritual advance and causes many believers to adopt what I call "the creed of contentment." 

I am sure you agree with me that there is always real joy in the heart of the person who has become a child of God. 

Sound teaching of the Word will then hold out the goal of moving forward, emulating the Apostle Paul's desire to become a special kind of Christian!

~A. W. Tozer

Prayer:  Lord, I know that there is so much for me to learn and so many areas in which I need to mature. 

Let me Not grow fat and content while I have yet experienced so little!

God Knows My Prayer

                                                
We modern Christians seem to be a strange breed in many of our ways. 

We are so completely satisfied with earthly things and we enjoy our creature comforts so much that we would just rather stay on here for a long, long time! 

Probably most of us do not tell God about that kind of desire when we pray. 

But for years, I have made a practice of writing many of my earnest prayers to God in a little book - a book now well worn. 

I remind God often of what my prayers have been. 

One prayer in the book, and God knows it well by this time, is an honest supplication...

Oh, God, let me die rather than to go on day by day living wrong. 

I do not want to become a careless, fleshly old man.

I want to be right so that I can die right! 

Lord, I do not want my life to be extended if it would mean that I should cease to live right and fail in my mission to glorify You all of my days! 

I would rather go home right now than to live on if living on was to be a waste of God’s time and my own!

~A. W. Tozer 

Prayer:  Lord, my prayer is that You will keep me only for Your service, and that when I am no longer of service, You will take me home. 

I look forward to eternity praising You even as I praise You now.