The wrong battle (Tozer for Tuesday)

Could it be that we, as we look out upon the world and have tried to identify ourselves and our times, have placed the battle where the battle is not? Could it be that we have located the conflict where it is not? Could it be that we have looked to the gamblers and horse racers as the enemy, and certainly, they are no friends of God? Could it be we have looked at peddlers and the marijuana pushers and said, “There is the enemy”? We have looked at the much-abused American businessman with his carelessness toward heaven and his absorption with earth and said, “Secularism is the enemy.” Could it be that we see the battle where the battle is not and the conflict where God does not find it? Could it be that the conflict is not with a harlot, a gambler and the worldly businessman, but with the religionists? And could it be that the trouble with the world is the kind of religion that we have?—A.W. Tozer, Reclaiming Christianity, 80–81

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Let me remind you that he was writing in the late 1950s to early 1960s! How prophetic of where we are 75 years later.

Lord, have mercy on your church!
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