Aw Tozer talks about the distance we feel, despite it not being there, between us and God. So often, we stand away from God, but He's really right next to us. It's just that we've accepted our unlikeness to Him, instead of striving to be more like Him. Tozer writes, "We need to repent of unlikeness; of unholiness in the presence of the holy; of self-indulgence in the presence of the selfless Christ; of harshness in the presence of the kind Christ; of hardness in the presence of the forgiving Christ; of lukewarmness in the presence of the zealous Christ, burning like a fiery flame; of worldliness and earthliness in the presence of the heavenly Christ. I think we ought to repent." Mark 14:72
In Mark 14, we read about Peter denying the Lord 3 times in one night, yet when he realized how far he'd moved from Christ, he repented with anguished tears. Isn't it time for us to repent and become more like Christ instead of less?
Tozer asks, "What are you going to do about it?" I agree with Tozer, it's time for me to repent.
Join me in reading Mark 14 and be encouraged!
