"We must strip down to essentials (and they will be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with guileless candor (open innocence) of childhood. If we do this, without doubt, God will quickly respond."
The Lord God said to Levi, "I am thy part and thine inheritance."
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.
So we too will be brought to the testing place as Abraham was, and we may never know when we are there. Then there will be one choice and then an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.
To have everything but possess nothing.
The Pursuit of God - A.W. Tozer
Gratitude goes out to: understanding my broken relationship with God and with myself, finding that God gives grace when I look at my possessions more than I look at my Treasure, for giving up control on big decisions, God's sovereignty in all things
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