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The Throbbing Heart of Religion
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Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. (NRSV)
Listen to the radio broadcast of The Throbbing Heart of Religion
Download audio file“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to me, it carries a lot of baggage. It speaks of rituals and rules, bells and smells if you will, which is precisely the sort of sterile Christianity that I grew up in.
And let me tell you, not only did that sterile imposter not do a single thing for me, but it inoculated me against Christianity, against God, against Jesus, for many years – decades, in fact.
Sadly, still today, there are many people who call themselves Christians out of no more than a sense of obligation to the religion handed down to them from their parents. Or, perhaps, their walk with Jesus began in a flurry of relationship, but eventually descended into a turgid life of following rigid rules.
Contrast that tragic reality against this simple statement from God to His people:
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. (NRSV)
There’s a passion there … there’s a yearning in the great and mighty heart of God for His people, a yearning that’s simply not reciprocated in the heart of many a Christ-follower. In stark contrast, A.W. Tozer writes that:
The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the spirit of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.
Now a “religion” with a throbbing heart, with a passionate interchange between the Creator and the created … that’s something that I can sign up to. That’s something that I want. How about you?
Don’t allow your throbbing heart for God to be dulled, placated, robbed, by passionless religion. Call to Him and He will answer you!
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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