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The Loneliness of a Christian [message #6819]

Mon, 22 February 2010 13:26

grandom
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I wasnt going to post again for awhile because it seemed since
I started posting again, everyone else stopped.

That being said,while drinking my cup of coffe this morning I came across this little article by A.W. Tozer.

The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.

The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.

The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.

He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.

It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."

By A. W. Tozer

I dont apologize for being serious most of the time.I like Tozer long for people in my day to day walk who are interested in talking about the Lord and the things of God. It seems I just make them uncomfortable. I know my experience is probably no different then most on the forum.It just seems so sad that most who claim to be Christians dont want to talk about The Lord.

It reminds me of the Saviours words to the lost on judgement day. They will say Lord Lord but he will say "I never knew you".

I dont mean to put a damper on everyones day, because Jesus said I will never leave you or forsake you.I have found in my darkest hour He IS THERE.
Bless His Holy name.

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