"The tree that is blown down in the storm is rotten in its heart or it wouldn't be blown down. And the church that falls because of persecution is a church that was dead before it fell."
A, W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Culture p.161
Moody 2016
No question about it. Tozer does not mince words.
I guess I'm okay with that. I don't want to live under legalism; nor return to my picture of God wielding a hammer and anxious to use it.
But neither do I want to call insults persecution. Nor do I want to cave under the world's pressures and persuasions. I want to be a tree, STRONG and able to stand solid in the storms.
"Blessed is the man . . . his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither,
Whatever he does prospers."
Psalm 1:1-3 NIV
Desiring to be strong AND loving AND pleasant,
(With God, that's possible.)
Lonnie
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