TOZER DEVOTIONAL

TOZER DEVOTIONAL
Thu, March 23, 2017
The Church is Us
Our most pressing obligation today is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. It is of far greater importance that we have better Christians than that we have more of them. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest not a little better than but a little worse than the seed from which it sprang. Thus the direction will be down until vigorous, effective means are taken to improve the seed.


And how can we improve the church? Simply and only by improving ourselves: and there is where the difficulty lies. The church in any locality is what its individual members are, no better and no worse. We as members must begin by seeking moral amendment that will result in a positive spiritual renaissance. And that is why improvement is hard to achieve. As long as we can keep the whole thing at arm's length and deal with it academically we may preach and write about it at little or no real cost to ourselves and, it must be admitted, with no real advance in godliness.

Verse
''For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.''
Colossians 2:9-10

Thought
The Church will experience revival, spiritual renewal only as we experience it. We cannot criticize the Church for spiritual defects unless we ourselves are modeling Christlike living. The Church is not them, it is us.

Prayer
You promise fullness in Christ. May I experience it, Lord!