Ep 194 (3/15/2021): Tozer Devotional Breakdown: God is Not a Railway Porter, He’s not my genie

A. W. Tozer on Christian Leadership, March 15 Devotion:

Title: God is Not a Railway Porter

Scripture: Isaiah 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure or weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills in the scales?

Devotion: We must be concerned with the person and character of God, not the promises. Through promises we learn what God has willed to us, we learned what we may claim as our heritage, we will learn how we should pray. But faith itself must rest on the character of God.

Is this difficult to see? Why are we not stressing this in our evangelical circles? Why are we afraid to declare that people in our churches must come to know God Himself? Why do we not tell them that they must get beyond the point of making God a lifeboat for their rescue or a ladder to get them out of a burning building? How can we help our people get over the idea that God exists just to help run their businesses or fly their airplanes?

God is not a railway porter who carries your suitcase and serves you. God is God. He made heaven and earth. He holds the world in His hand. He measures the dust of the earth in the balance. He spreads the sky out like a mantle. He is the Great God Almighty. He is not your servant. He is your Father, and you are His child. He sits in heaven, and you are on the earth.

Prayer: God, I fall on my face before You in worship today. Forgive me for those times I’ve treated You as though You were my servant. I am Your servant, Lord, and I humbly fall before You today. In Jesus name I pray. Amen!