Convicting word from Joni Eareckson Tada

Do you know who the handicapped people are? They are the ones (and many of them are believers) who when their alarm clock goes off at 7:30 in the morning, they throw back the covers, jump out of bed, take a quick shower scarf down breakfast and zoom out the door on automatic cruise control. Christian, if you live that way, did you know that James 4:6 says that God opposes you? ~Joni Eareckson Tada, Suffering For the Sake of . . .”

A. W. Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? Science, which has provided men with certain material comforts, has robbed them of their souls by surrounding them with a world hostile to their existence. "Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still" is a wise and healing counsel, but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and the television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion. ~A. W. Tozer, Of God and Men, 125.