This part further taught me that simply becoming born again was not enough that “…full knowledge of one personality by another cannot be achieved in one encounter. How is it that I was being so bent on going left, and yet God sought me? The lost sheep…the lost coin.

It brought “Even while we were yet sinners…” to life, and broke my heart. Imperfect it may be, but a true work nonetheless, and the secret cause of all desiring and seeking and praying which may follow,” Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him. “…before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. The first chapter (or day, since it is is divided into a 31-day meditational) gave me a deeper understanding of what the process I had just gone through really entailed. One of the reviews given about the book was by Warren Wiersbe, who said “Happy is the Christian who reads a Tozer book when his soul is parched and God seems far away.” And oh, how true this is. I don’t remember exactly what moved me to buy it, and why I picked that particular one (seeing that I did not know Tozer before then), but I did, and it was just what I needed, thanks be to God. To pursue God is to know Him, and in our knowing be drawn in.The very first Christian non-fiction I ever read after becoming born again (and I barely read any before), was this one The Pursuit of God, by A.W. 'Arise, O sleeper!' is his word to us, and yet if we heed the call, we will see that to arise is not to stand, but to kneel before the God of heaven in humble contemplation.

Tozer writes from his knees, a posture fit for presenting the character of God in all its demanding grandeur. He reminds us that life apart from God is really no life at all. With prophetic vigor and flowing prose, he urges us to replace low thoughts of God with lofty ones, to quiet our lives so we can know Gods presence. Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God. So it is in this Christian classic by the late pastor and evangelist A. Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. Tozer's bestseller, this book has been called 'one of the all-time most inspirational books' by a panel of Christian magazine writers.

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer