The Spiritual Resolution: Get In Touch With God This Year And Live A Life Of Greater Tranquility & Prosperity!

The urge to quest after God initiates with God, but the outworking of that urge is our pursuing hard after Him; and the whole time we're questing after Him we're already in His hand: "Thy right hand upholdeth me."
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When We Look
The modern man of science has lost God among the wonders of His world; we're in real danger of misplacing God among the wonders of His Word. We have nearly blanked out that God is a Person and, intrinsically, may be cultivated as any individual may. It's innate in personality to be able to understand other personalities, but total knowledge of one personality by another can't be accomplished in one meeting. It's only after long and loving mental encounters that the full possibilities of both may be explored.
All social encounters between humans is a response of personality to personality, scaling upward from the most common brush between man and man to the fullest, most familiar communion of which the human soul is able. God is a Person, and in the depth of His powerful nature He thinks, wills, delights, feels, loves, wants and suffers as any other individual might. In making Himself known to us He communicates with us by the avenues of our brains, our wills and our emotions.
This encounters between God and the soul is experienced by us in conscious personal awareness. Being created in His image we have inside us the mental ability to know Him. I wish deliberately to promote this powerful longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our current depressed state. The stiff character about our spiritual lives is a result of our deficiency of holy desire. Complacency is a lethal foe of all spiritual maturation. Intense desire has to be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His masses. He waits to be needed. Regrettable that with a lot of us He waits in vain.
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Each age has its own features. Right now we're in an age of spiritual complexness. The simplicity which is in Christ is seldom discovered among us. In its place are programs, techniques, organizations and a world of nervous actions which absorb time and attention but may never fulfill the longing of the heart.
The superficiality of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that fakeness of the world which marks our promotional techniques all testify that we, today, know God merely imperfectly, and the serenity of God scarcely at all. If we'd discover God among all the religious externals we must first decide to find Him, and then go forward in the way of simplicity. We have to simplify our approach to Him. We have to peel down to essentials. We have to put away all effort to impress, and attach to the honest frankness of childhood. If we accomplish this, beyond any doubt God will quickly respond.
In prayer we exercise a further peeling down of everything, even of our theological system. When the Lord separated Canaan among the tribes of Israel Levi got no share of the land. God stated to him simply, "I am thy part and thine inheritance," and by those words made him richer than all his brethren, more plentiful than all the kings and rajas that have ever lived in the world. And there's a spiritual principle here, a precept still valid for every one.
The man who has God for his treasure bears all things in One. A lot of average treasures might be denied him, or if he's allowed to get them, the enjoyment of them will be so normalized that they'll never be essential to his happiness. Or if he has to see them go, one after one, he will barely feel a sense of loss, for owning the Source of all things he has in One all gratification, all pleasure, and all joy. Whatever he
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might lose he's really lost nothing, for he now owns it all in One, and he has it purely, licitly and forever.
A Prayer to be closer.
O God, I've sampled Thy goodness, and it's both gratified me and made me hungry for more. I'm painfully witting of my need of additional grace. I'm ashamed of my deficiency of desire. O God, I wish to want Thee; I yearn to be filled with longing; I crave to be made thirstier still. Show me Thy glory; I pray Thee, that so I might know Thee indeed. Start in mercy a fresh work of love inside me. State to my soul, "rise, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then provide me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this foggy lowland where I've wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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Chapter 2:
Possess The Kingdom First And Things Later
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Synopsis
Before the Lord God made man on the earth He first of all prepared for him by making an existence of valuable and pleasant things for his sustenance and joy. In the Book of Genesis account of the creation these are named plainly "things." They were created for man's uses, however they were meant always to be ...