{"id":6063,"date":"2020-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2024-10-09T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:58:13","slug":"day-34-a-w-tozer-the-pursuit-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/day-34-a-w-tozer-the-pursuit-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 34 \u2014 A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe \u2018other world,\u2019 which is the object of this world\u2019s disdain and the subject of the drunkard\u2019s mocking song, is our carefully chosen goal and the object of our holiest longing. But we must avoid the common fault of pushing the \u201cother world\u201d into the future. It is not future, but present. It parallels our familiar physical world, and the doors between the two worlds are open. \u2018Ye are come,\u2019 says the writer to the Hebrews (and the tense is plainly present), \u2018unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.\u2019\u201d<\/em>
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\u201cThe \u2018other world,\u2019 which is the object of this world\u2019s disdain and the subject of the drunkard\u2019s mocking song, is our carefully chosen goal and the object of our holiest longing. But we must avoid the common fault of pushing the \u201cother world\u201d into the future. It is not future, but present. It parallels our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-72-days-pilgrim-challenge","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t