Pursuit of God - More Tozer

As you can tell from some of my posts, I've been rereading The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer. His words in this classic cut to the heart, and to the heart of the matter. From the chapter Apprehending God -

At the root of Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian's faith is unseen reality......

If we truly want to follow God, we must be other-worldly. This I say knowing well that the word has been used with scorn by the sons of this world and applied to the Christian as a badge of reproach. So be it. Every man must choose his world. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by doing so. The "other world", which is the object of this world's disdain and the subject of the drunkard's mocking song, is our carefully chosen goal and the object of our holiest longing.

But we must avoid the common fault of pushing this "other-world" into the future. It is not future, but present. It parallels our familiar physical world, and the doors between the two worlds are open.....