Following Hard after God

The following are points from the book, "The Pursuit of God", by A. W. Tozer, a man of God from Chicago, Illinois. What he wrote in 1948 is relevant even today. 

The purpose of including his message in point form is so that it would at least whet one's appetite, and that "there may be those who can light their candle at its flame."

This book has been published by Christian Publications, Inc. Harrisburg, PA.

1. Before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. This is prevenient grace.
   
2. All the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand. (Psalm 63:8)
   
3. It is inherent in personality to be able to know other personalities, but full knowledge of one personality by another is achieved only after long and loving mental intercourse. God is a person, and in the deep of His mighty nature thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. He communicates to us through the avenues of our mind, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.
   
4. Our heavenly birth is not an end but the beginning of glorious pursuits - exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.
   
5. To have found God and still to pursue Him is the paradox of our soul.
   
6. The hungry heart is not satisfied with just "accepting" Christ. It wants to taste, to touch, to see with its inner eyes the wonder that is God.
   
7. The longing heart can never be satisfied by programmes, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities but by simplicity which is in Christ.
   
8. The man who had God for his treasure has all things in One. For having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight.