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Seeking Man's Favor: The Root of
Religious Unbelief
"How can you believe, which receive honor one of another?"
John 5:44
The whole course of our lives will be upset by failure to put God where
He belongs. We exalt ourselves instead of God and the curse
follows! Consider the very disturbing question that
Jesus
asked of men when He was on earth: "How can ye believe, which receive
honor of one another, and seek not the honor that comes from God
alone?" If I understand this
correctly, Christ
taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men
made belief impossible!
Is this sin at the root of religious
unbelief?
Could it be that those "intellectual difficulties" which men blame for
their inability to believe are but smoke screens to conceal the real
cause that lies behind them?
Was it this greedy
desire for honor from man that made men into Pharisees and Pharisees
into Deicides?
Is this the secret back of religious
self-righteousness and empty worship? I believe it may be.
Men and women who will make the honest once-for-all decision to exalt
and honor God and His Christ over all are precious to God above all
treasures of earth or sea, for He knows that His honor is safe in such
consecrated hands!
By A. W. Tozer
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