A.W. Tozer The Blessedness
of Possessing Nothing
Our guest Blog poster this week, is A.W. Tozer. Some of you have said that his chapter entitled "The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing" is a favorite. I have enclosed a portion of this chapter. This is so appropriate to being a River and Not a Reservoir. I trust his thoughts will be both an encouragement and a challenge - as they have for me.
Mark
Mark
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.—Matt. 5:3
Before the Lord God made man upon the earth He first prepared for him by creating a world of useful and pleasant things for his sustenance and delight. In the Genesis account of the creation these are called simply "things." They were made for man's uses, but they were meant always to be external to the man and subservient to him. In the deep heart of the man was a shrine where none but God was worthy to come. Within him was God; without, a thousand gifts which God had showered upon him. But sin has introduced complications and has made those very gifts of God a potential source of ruin to the soul.
Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and "things" were allowed to enter. Within the human heart "things" have taken over. Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne.
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