God Help Us

As happens periodically without much staying power I'm again "trying to get back to God," and this time so far I'm sticking it out and hope it continues.  Reading around in various "mystics" and devotional writers for inspiration.  It helps a lot.  Certain psalms help, the Song of Songs helps (no, it's not about human love relationships no matter how many misguided people think so),  Spurgeon on the Song of Songs, Madame Guyon's various writings, Gerhard Tersteegen's sermons and poetry, John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul --  just the first few lines of the poem are inspiring --   and now going back to take a look at A W Tozer.  First sentence of the Preface to his Pursuit of God:

In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself.

I hope it was true then and even more so that it might be true now.  The book was written in 1948, and the world got darker over the next decades.  The hour is even darker  now.  Without abandoning our obligation to do what we can to push it back, we need to avoid getting swalloed up by it, and the pursuit of God is far more important.   It would be wonderful if revival could still come to this miserable world, but whether it does or not, personal revival is always the most important thing.