Tozer for Tuesday

People go to a doctor and say, “Doctor, I feel all run down; what do you recommend?” One doctor says, ‘‘Well, straighten up, live right, eat the proper diet, get enough sleep and in six months’ time you won’t know yourself.” We shrug him off.

“Oh, doctor, that sounds old-fashioned. Don’t you have something I can take? I want to feel better tomorrow.” Therefore, he patiently gives us some pills we take and psychologically we think we are better, but we are not. Americans are impatient, and the same goes with American Christianity. Some people now want Christianity in the form of a pill, something that will work very quickly.

God says, “Don’t get so anxious, you’ve got eternity to live in. Just live it out. Just work it out, sweat it out, stay around, live right, let week follow week and month follow month, and keep right and keep praying, and you’ll win.”—A.W. Tozer, Living as a Christian, 138–39