Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44a). The first chapter, “Following Hard After God,” reminds us that our pursuit of God is preceded by His pursuit of us. I had thought about jotting a few notes about each chapter as I finished and wish I had now. The ten chapters explore different aspects or pursuing God. This book is his “modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him” (p. “The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts” (p. In his preface, Tozer expresses concern that though there are good Bible teachers teaching vital right doctrine and the fundamentals of the faith, they seem “strangely unaware that in their ministry there is no manifest Presence,” that “ God’s children starving while actually seated at the Father’s table,” that “there may be a right opinion of God without either love or…right temper toward Him (pp. 🙂 ) It had been years since I had read The Pursuit of God and I couldn’t remember much about it, so I decided to delve into it again. (Good thing I don’t rely much on my memory.

When I actually checked, however, what I had read last year was Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy. Tozer for Carrie‘s Reading to Know Classics Book Club, this month because I thought I had read it just last year. I had not originally planned to reread The Pursuit of Godby A.

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