stop and look

“Stop tinkering with your soul and look away to the perfect One.” - A.W. Tozer

(originally written 10/22/08)

So I wrote this this morning in bible study and am wanting to post a lot more when time allows on this awesome chapter in a book we’re studying. This is probably the first book in a long time I've read that I haven't cared much for, but now on chapter 7, things are starting to resonate... But for now, after an hour long discourse on faith in the bible study group this morning, I wrote my most simplified conclusion in my book:

Faith is a constant moment by moment, circumstance by circumstance

choice

of where to turn my gaze

Myself and my circumstances and trying with all my might to figure out a solution on my own, rely on myself, trying to solve the problem

or to God…

Who will I depend on?

Who or what will I trust?

Who or what will I choose to believe?

“Faith is simply believing God.” – Francis Schaeffer

A.W. Tozer wrote, “Faith is the gaze of the soul upon a saving God… Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existsnec. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object on upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.”