Some Things Must Go

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  -2 Peter 1:4

I repeat my view of worship--no worship is wholly pleasing to God until there is nothing in me displeasing to God...

There is nothing in either of us that can be made good until Jesus Christ comes and changes us--until He lives in us and unites our nature with God, the Father Almighty.  Not until then can we call ourselves good.

That is why I say that your worship must be total.  It must involve the whole you.  That is why you must prepare to worship God, and that preparation is not always pleasant.  There may be revolutionary changes which must take place in your life.

If there is to be true and blessed worship, some things in your life must be destroyed, eliminated.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is certainly positive and constructive.  But it must be destructive in some areas, dealing with and destroying certain elements that cannot remain in a life pleasing to God.

-A.W. Tozer, Tozer on the Almighty God