"If I were to ask tonight, 'How many of you
want to come down here and receive some-
thing,' I'm sure there would be a great number
who would come, because God's children are
always picking up whatever they can.
They go to one camp meeting and another,
getting blessed here and getting blessed
there, and picking up something here.
Always getting something, but never getting
rid of anything. Our difficulty is right there.
We want to receive before we have emptied
ourselves. You can't fill a full vessel. You
have to empty it first.
Friends, you'll never know the Lord very
well until you have died to your property
and yourself and your future, and all the
little things you hold dear."
And Tozer went on to share his own experience;
of how he had to go to God to die to his adoration
of his only daughter. A very heart-warming
sharing that showed his soft side. Maybe my
next posting will be on that.
