DISCIPLE

A. W. Tozer (note: Tozer wrote this in the 1950's. One can only wonder what he would think and say of today’s world with wireless internet, cell-phones, constant connection, mp3 players, and all the other technologies that provide constant entertainment and amusement, stunt spiritual growth and produce busy, impotent, worldly Christians. If we were to update the title of the article for today, we would remove the world “almost.”) “And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business...That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without... ”     1Thessalonians 4:11-12     We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity!     Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible, multiplying distractions and beating us down by destroying our solitude.     "Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still" is a wise an...

by A. W. Tozer “That ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business...that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without...” 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible, multiplying distractions and beating us down by destroying our solitude.     “Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still” is a wise and healing counsel, but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and the television? (Note: and now internet and smart phones which were nonexistent in Tozer's day). These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. No spot is now safe from the world’s intrusion.     One way the civilized world destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts. Our “vastly improved methods of communication” of which the shortsighted boast so loudly ...