This book, The Pursuit of God, is a modest attempt to help God’s children find Him.  What we know that He is omnipresent, omniscience, transcendent, and holy.  All we learned from Tozer’s first book is external and the aim of this book. The mission of the book “The Pursuit of God,”  is to make the external, internal.

We must pursue God because He has first put the urge within us that spurs us to that pursuit.  “No man can come to me except the Father which hath send me draw him.”  and “We love Him because He first loved us.”

God initiates all.  The problem facing Christians today is that the whole transaction of conversion has been made mechanical and spiritless.  Christ may be received without any special love for Him in our soul.  I don’t find many people hungry and thirsty after God. They say: “Well I am going to do that as soon as I get around to it”.   Pursuit takes effort on our part.

Pursue means chasing after, dogging, following, hounding, shadowing, tracking, tailing, shadowing…..and I  am not seeing that in very many people.  I think that love for God initially comes when He enters our being, but because we weren’t taught to PURSUE – our heart became hardened and luke warm to God.

We live in a fallen, disjointed world, where things are constantly unraveling around the edges of our lives.  Only a vibrant relationship with God can keep us from coming unraveled too.  We need God more now that ever.  We need him for our health care, our finances, our protection.  He is our Savior.

God is a person, and in the deep of His mighty awesome nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires, laughs and suffers as any other person may.  We are made in His image.  He communicates with us through the avenues of our mind, our wills, and our emotions. Yet, people still say: “Well, I’m going to read my Bible and pray more as soon as I get around to it.”  Pursuit takes effort.

Great men of faith as Moses, David and Paul confessed their burning desire to KNOW God.  They sacrificed all, that they might Know God.

Say you see a person and you like what you see and you decide you really want to get to know them better  …what would be the first thing you would do?  Would you think: “Well, I’m going to call them as soon as I get around to it….”

It is the same with God.  To get to know Him requires effort, and hard effort to PURSUE Him. Keep after Him until you begin to hear His voice, and He will enter into conversation with you.  Don’t think: “Well, if I listen to Him, I’m scared He will ask me to do something I don’t want to do.”  Like What?   Like LOVE HIM?

Well the buck stops here.  Did you notice what I gave you tonight taped on your sheet of paper?  I gave you a Round Tuit!   No more excuses.    At last you can pursue God as you now “got a round tuit”.

“Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. Oh God, The Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me thy glory, I pray Thee, that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”  – Page 28