Voice of a Prophet: The Dynamics of Experiencing God 3

Voice of a Prophet

By A.W. Tozer

The Dynamics of Experiencing God

Have You Met with God Yet?

In looking at these great men of God, I notice that the details of their encounters with God were always sharp and clear to the individual. There was no mistake about it;
God was speaking to them in a clarity that inspired obedience in their hearts.

What we do not hear clearly, we are not willing to obey.

You must meet God. It is not simply that you can meet God; it is not simply that you might meet Him.
You must meet God. This is the imperative if you are to be a voice to your generation.
You do not have to travel the world looking for God or tap on a tree or rock to see if God is there, or climb up into heaven to pull God down into the depths.

“But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it” (Deut. 30:14).

To tell people that they ought to meet God is never enough. They also need to be told how to meet God.
It is through the gospel that we discover this. The gospel tells us that there is a door, and only one. Jesus Christ is that door, and through that door, we meet God.

Christ takes God in one hand and man in the other and brings them together, introducing them, and man is restored in the favor and grace of God.

The Lamb of God taketh away the sins of the world. He died for the unjust that He might bring us to God. The gospel also tells us that we are saved by faith, through grace, and that not of works, lest any man should boast.

It is at the cross of Jesus, at the open tomb of Jesus, and at the throne of Jesus that people really meet God.

The prophets of old clearly had met God. The presence of God appeared in their human intellect and illuminated to them the reality that is in God.

This is what the Holy Spirit desires to do for us today. If we are to be the voice of God in our generation, we must be illuminated by the Holy Spirit, which invades the human intellect.

We must walk by faith, not by sight.

Although this is a brief experience, it affects your life for as long as you live. You are never the same after you have encountered the presence of God.

I think one of the keys to this is first to repudiate all self-help. These are the days of the books that show how you can help yourself. It is not self that we want to help; rather, self is to be repudiated and put on the cross.

In the world of medicine, self-medication is never a good idea. No medical doctor loves to hear that you have been self-medicating. It is never a good idea when you try to fix yourself, and it goes double in the area of the spiritual. You cannot make yourself holy.
All self needs to be repudiated.

We also need to lift up our eyes; when we do so, we will see a smiling Father looking down. The Christian life that you can have is so much more wonderful than the Christian life you now have.

The greatest crime in our generation is the fact that we have too many people who think they know how to fix every situation.
We have counselors and psychologists who are trying to keep man together.
Thank God that Ezekiel had nobody who could help put him back together.
All he had was God.
All he needed was God.

If we are going to be a voice in our generation, God will guide us down the path where all we have is God.

Ezekiel was such a man, and when the heavens opened for him, he experienced God in ways that are beyond human calculation.

As soon as you can figure God out, you have not met the true God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear God, may we surrender and hand everything over unto Thee.
May we refuse to help ourselves in order that You can lift us up into the heavens that we might experience Your presence as we could never experience it before.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, amen.