Every now and then an excellent Bible expositor will tabe a little jab at "mysticism," such as in mocking what he considers to be an unwarranted mystical interpretation of a particular biblical text. Sometimes the expositor is undoubtedly right, if there really is such an interpretation which in some cases I've heard I really don't know, but the impulse to mock the "mystical" does grate on me. It's an unfortunate word because it covers both good and bad "mystical" experiences, but we're stuck with the word as Tozer seemed to know. He put together the book "The Christian Book of Mystical Verse" and felt it necessary to use the term although he was at pains to explain that it is nothing more than expressions of biblical truth experienced at a depth most people don't have or even think of pursuing.
I don't want to get into this subject beyond once again pointing it out as a neglected area of Christian experience, an area Tozer says is too often cramped and shriveled by a zealous attendance to the truths of biblical faith. If you don't seek God beyond the usual level of daily devotions and Bible reading and medication you'll never discover that God can be known in personal experience beyond anything you can imagine. Just try a few days of intensifying the usual prayer and Bible reading with fasting, with an aim to know god better. You might be amazed.
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Hint: If you don't know that the Song of Solomon is about the love between God and His saints you just don't get it.
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