The Pursuit of God

5 Responses to “The Pursuit of God”

1. T. Aragon says:

   May 7, 2010 at 12:26 am

   Product took a small long to get here by comparison to additional 4 books ordered but arrived in excellent condition
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
2. GPK says:

   May 7, 2010 at 2:42 am

   This is a review of “The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine” by Tozer.

   Based on all the positive reviews I was expecting to read a kind of second C.S. Lewis. This turns out not to be the case. The book by Tozer is brief (which is a plus in my view, since it is much more hard to write a well thought through fleeting book, than to dump ones incoherent thoughts in many pages) and has many excellent fragments. My main objection to this book is the style in which Tozer writes: perhaps it is my not being a native English speaker and not being brought up with the bible and not being used to a predictable ‘religious writing style’, but I establish the style of the whole book and his choice of words/phrases rather hard. It makes no simple reading. Much use of “thou”, quotes in older English and bible passages. All together I establish this rather distracting from the content. Bottom line: it was not what I expected and hoped for.

   My advise: manage your expectations, and first read a few sample pages before you choose to buy this book.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
3. S. G. Piper says:

   May 7, 2010 at 4:30 am

   I want to beable to really give a review on this product, but, truly
   
   I took it out of my purse, somewhere and I haven’t been able to find the book. It sounded wonderful. And at some point I will order another.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
4. Agent Grant Hawley says:

   May 7, 2010 at 6:40 am

   After painstakingly enjoying The Knowledge of the Holy (I am engaged in research on A.W. Tozer), I expected that I would find The Pursuit of God to be equally or even more enjoyable. But I have to prompt my disappointement with this work.

   There are some things that are excellent with this work, these are, 1) Tozer does a excellent job of depicting the egocentricity we regularly find in Christianity as the wretched thing that it is. 2) Tozer does well to make an appetite for pursuing God. 3) Tozer shows the blessedness of humility before God.

   The Pursuit of God was not written to Christians who are mediocre in zeal, it was written to persons who are longing for a close walk with the Lord. And as such, most of the excellent things he says are merely reinforcement to the attitue the readership probably already has.

   What this book is missing is the very essence of victorious Christian living. Zeal, humility, and appetite will never, by themselves, produce right consecration. These three characteristics, when played out by the power of the flesh will produce constant defeat. How many Christians do you know who are zealous for the Lord, yet are completely beat up by their own sin? They sin, repent, determine to try harder, fail, repent, redouble the effort, promise to read their Bible more, to pray more, to stay away from the sin that entangles them, then they mess up again. This is exactly the experience that Romans 7:14-25 describes, and this is not what God intends for us.

   Tozer makes consistent appeals to the flesh (p. 105-6 in my copy has a fantastic example of this) to live a more holy life. This never works, for, “the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it” (Romans 8:7). More willpower is not the answer.

   I recommend you read Watchman Nee’s The Normal Christian Life or Hanna Witall Smith’s The Christian’s Secret to a Pleased Life either in addition to or as a replacement for of The Pursuit of God.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
5. Anonymous says:

   May 7, 2010 at 9:30 am

   You’ve got to read this one
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5