Removing the Veil- A.W.Tozer

Excerpted from The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer. If you've never read this book, get it. It is an unbelievable book.

The following from the chapter, Removing the Veil- Tozer is describing our life and walk against the example of the Old Testament tabernacle. You start in the outer court, moving into the Holy Place, but are separated from the resting place of God- the Holy of Holies- by the veil. He says-

With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus' flesh, with nothing on God's side to prevent us from entering, why do we tarry without? Why do we consent to abide all our days just outside of the Holy of Holies and never enter in to look upon God? We hear the Bridegroom say "Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is they voice, and thy countenance is comely." (Song of Solomon 2:14). We sense that the call is for us, but we still fail to draw near, and the years passs and we grow old and tired in the outer courts of the tabernacle. What hinders us?

Tozer goes on to explain that there is another veil, a veil in our hearts, a veil of the fleshly, fallen nature of our hearts. It is self-sins, and Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. We need to take our Self-sins to the cross, because we cannot rend this veil ourselves.

Only God can.