“We may plead for mercy for a lifetime in unbelief, and at the end of our days be still no more than sadly hopeful that we shall somewhere, sometime, receive it. This is to starve to death just outside the banquet hall in which we have been warmly invited. Or we may, if we will, lay hold on the mercy of God by faith, enter the hall, and sit down with the bold and avid souls who will not allow diffidence and unbelief to keep them from the feast of fat things prepared for them.” –Tozer
This statement is so true, and yet possibly misleading. Protestants often declare the grace and mercy of God, but deny the word of God that supplies it. The only thing between God’s grace and ourselves is faith—this do Protestants rightly assert. However, along with that grace is the reception of God’s word of repentance. If we are still seeking the salvation of the world—wealth and fame and comfort and joy in this world and the people of this world, then we will not obtain God’s grace, for God’s grace is not granting us these things. But if we seek the wealth of God’s kingdom, the fame before God’s throne and the comfort of being embraced by Jesus, that is found in God and its fullness is great and will overpower all our doubts.
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