Sublime

There are no unspiritual abilities, just misused ones. Start using yours for God’s pleasure.

When you grasp the eternal consequences of your character development, you will pray fewer “Comfort me” prayers (“Help me feel good”) and more “Conform me” prayers (“Use this to make me more like you”).

Essentially, true discipline means using will in the service of truth. It is the merging of will and truth. It means that the will of Essence is in service of the truth of Essence. It means you don’t use your will in the service of personality.

A. W. Tozer said, “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.”

The Ideal Disciple

The human need to know how to live is perennial. It has never been more desperate than it is today,