“His track I see and I’ll pursue,” sang our fathers only a short generation ago, but that song is heard no more in the great congregation. How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of “accepting” Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls. We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.
–A. W. Tozer
The language of this quote by Tozer may be a bit difficult, but I think it points out a great tragedy that has occurred in the lives of many people due to a failure of God-honoring teaching in the church. The teaching is that as long as we “accept” Christ and gain our “fire insurance” to keep us out of hell, then we don’t need to continue “working out our salvation with fear and trembling.”
I hope that you haven’t stepped into a relationship with Jesus and then you just sat down. I pray that you will desire to go deeper and deeper in your relationship with Him. That you’ll hear Him calling to you: “Farther Up and Further In” as you strive for more spiritual maturity and as you seek to become more like Christ daily.