The Pursuit of God · Chapters
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Chapter 1
Epigraph
The chapter presents a single verse from Hosea 6:3, emphasizing the promise of knowing the Lord through persistent pursuit, with His coming as certain as the morning.
Chapter 2
The Pursuit of God
This chapter introduces the central theme of the soul's deep longing and active pursuit of God, initiated by God Himself. It contrasts the shallow religiosity of the age with a true, inward hunger for the Divine, calling believers to a personal and earnest quest for God's presence.
Chapter 3
I: Following Hard After God
The chapter emphasizes the necessity of a deep, personal pursuit of God, initiated by God's prevenient grace. It critiques shallow religion and complacency, urging believers to seek God with intense desire, simplicity, and a focus on God Himself rather than religious externals. The chapter highlights that knowing God is a continuous, conscious, and personal relationship, not a one-time event.
Chapter 4
II: The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
This chapter explores the spiritual discipline of renunciation, using Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac as the central illustration. It argues that true blessedness comes from possessing nothing externally while holding all things inwardly through surrender to God, and that the possessive clinging to 'things' is a root sin that must be uprooted by the Cross.
Chapter 5
III: Removing the Veil
This chapter explores the concept of the veil that separates humanity from the manifest presence of God, identifying it as the self-life—composed of self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, and similar sins. Tozer emphasizes that this veil can only be removed through the cross's work in spiritual experience, not by mere instruction, and calls believers to yield to God's destructive work on the self so they may enter into the enjoyed presence of God.
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