Astonishing God

“The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much within the constitution. Never breaks our by-laws. He’s a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much one of us, and we ask Him to help us when we’re in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we’re asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn’t a God I could have much respect for. But when the Holy Ghost shows us God as He is we admire Him to the point of wonder and delight.” – A.W. Tozer

The Peril of the Perfunctory

This is a poignant quote from A.W. Tozer’s Seven Perils of the Preacher:

“Another danger is that he may develop a perfunctory spirit in the performance of the work of the Lord. Familiarity may breed contempt even at the very altar of God. How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when the sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy one; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.”

Brothers and Sisters, may we never lose the wonder.