Preface

Preface Questions
1. On Pg vii. Tozer says, “But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal: and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.” Would you say this is a true indictment of the church of today, and maybe even of your own life? Or is Tozer off-base?
1. How does a right view of God affect our inward, and outward lives?

Mike's Thoughts

It seems that in the modern church we have often forgotten the center of our worship: The majesty and the glory of God. There are lots of times in my day that I get so busy that I forget to think about the God that I claim to live for. When the Psalms say, “Be still and know that I am God,” I say with my actions, “Get busy, because God’s not going to be pleased if you don’t get everything on your ‘to do list’ done.” When I’m in sin, my first action is to try to do better, or try harder. When I think what God wants to say to me is, “Know me, rest in me, live in me, think of me, and I’ll change your heart to make you the person I want you to be.”

I’m excited to continue on in Tozer’s book, because I think that if I would set my mind on things above, contemplate/meditate on who God is, in the mornings and in the moments that I can freely think and focus on God through my day, I believe that God will change my view of him and that right view of him will change not only my outward actions, but the inward motives of my heart and hopefully all of Salt Company’s. I hope you guys enjoy this book this summer and I’ll be praying that we all have a greater view of our God because of it and that that view will radically transform our lives, our ministry, and our world.