This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God.
In the presence of God’s greatness we find, as Tozer says, “. . . a sudden sense of loneliness or a sense of wonder in the face of the universal vastness. Or we have had a fleeting visitation of light like an illumination from some other sun, giving us in a quick flash assurance that we are from another world, that our origins are divine.” Note that well: you are from another world and your origin is divine. Your physical birth into this world means that your origin is of this world – you were born in the line of Adam. But your spiritual birth in Christ signifies that your new life did not originate in this world, but was divine. You have been reborn in the line of Christ. Accordingly, your native tongue is no longer earthly, but the language of divine communion.
Tozer says that we can try to explain such feelings away but we are not being “fair to the facts until we allow at least the possibility that such experiences may arise from the presence of God in the world and his persistent effort to communicate with mankind.” Tozer rightly goes on to say, “. . . here I will not feel bad if no one follows me . . . every good and beautiful thing that man has produced in the world has been the result of his faulty and sin-blocked response to the creative Voice sounding over the earth.” That is, even the atheist who speaks or writes against God in no way destroys the creative power of God’s voice in his life. He made each of us in such a way that every human action worthy of praise is a response to the haunting sound of the speaking Voice.
In heaven we will find that the effects of sin will no longer distort our perspective. We will clearly see ourselves, each another, and God, as if for the first time. It will be similar to what happened with the Hubble telescope several years ago. The images were initially fuzzy and out of focus due to a faulty lens. But after the lens was corrected on a Space Shuttle mission, the images returned to earth were sharp and crisp. On an even greater scale, that is what our perspective will be like in heaven. Everything will be clear and focused.
• You are from another world, and your origin is divine.
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