Me:  I am glad I found you!

Prodigal:  Me too!

Me:  Now we can continue on our day.

 

This is from the book The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

 

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this:  that before a man can seek God, God must have sought the man. Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him; imperfect it may be, but a true work nonetheless, and the secret cause of all desiring and seeking and praying which may follow.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.  “No man can come to me”, said our Lord, “except the Father which hath sent me draw him,” and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming.  The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand:  “Thy right hand upholdeth me.”

 

 

I cannot take any credit for what God has given me today.  It is ONLY because of our LORD!  So may I praise Him with my whole heart and rejoice at His plan!

 

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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