Tozer wrote in his introduction to The Pursuit of God, "Others before me have much further into these holy mysteries... but if my flame is not large it is yet real...". There's a joke on the Simpson's about Milhouse's dad who writes a song called 'Can I borrow a feeling?'. It seems to me that it is given to us sometimes in reading Christian biography (as it must have been so frequently to Tozer) to borrow, not a feeling but a flame. To know, for a moment, someone else's knowing of God from their own peculiar vantage: behold the Lamb of God! Like some strange Airbnb, it is ours (momentarily) and we repose in the very heart of another saints knowing, as though, for a moment, it were our own heart as well, and their apprehension of God, their particular 'room with a view', is, for that moment our own: Augustine's desires, David's 'torrent of spiritual desire' (Tozer again)... McCheyne: Can I borrow a feeling? (Can I borrow a flame?)
I wish I walked with Jesus all day.
Jesus lives! ♥️ and is Yahweh God 🙏🏻 Christ ✝️ and King 👑
So beautiful to walk with Crist every day. Thanks
Amen
Tozer wrote in his introduction to The Pursuit of God, "Others before me have much further into these holy mysteries... but if my flame is not large it is yet real...". There's a joke on the Simpson's about Milhouse's dad who writes a song called 'Can I borrow a feeling?'. It seems to me that it is given to us sometimes in reading Christian biography (as it must have been so frequently to Tozer) to borrow, not a feeling but a flame. To know, for a moment, someone else's knowing of God from their own peculiar vantage: behold the Lamb of God! Like some strange Airbnb, it is ours (momentarily) and we repose in the very heart of another saints knowing, as though, for a moment, it were our own heart as well, and their apprehension of God, their particular 'room with a view', is, for that moment our own: Augustine's desires, David's 'torrent of spiritual desire' (Tozer again)...
McCheyne: Can I borrow a feeling? (Can I borrow a flame?)