Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6
“Deliverance, what kind of deliverance? Well, deliverance for whatever kind of deliverance you need. Deliverance won’t come because you’re nice, it won’t come because you memorize Scripture, though I want you to memorize Scripture. It won’t come because you love great hymns, though I want you to love great hymns. It won’t come because you go to prayer meeting. Well, I want you to go to prayer meeting. Deliverance will come because God is eager to deliver you. It burns in God’s presence. God’s hunting you up. God’s following you. Surely, goodness shall follow you all the days of your life. Amen.”
A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) in his sermon entitled “Thou Art Good and Doest Good” delivered on 18 November 1956.
While pheasant hunting I often say this to my German Shorthaired Pointer, “hunt it up, Grace, find a bird.” And we spend our day walking about 20,000 steps and hunting up birds.
I chose to look for the hunting motif in A.W. Tozer as Jenni and I got to hunt pheasant one year in North Dakota with dear friends, Randy and Debbie Discher, and Randy just loves Tozer who did not disappoint.
Enjoy his sermon if you love Tozer. And soak in how much God loves you. Even as I walked 20,000 steps yesterday looking for birds, God never stops looking for ways to bless me.
I like how Tozer draws out that this deliverance or blessing comes not because of what I do but because of how good God is. Seriously, read the sermon and be blessed.
Today, I praise God for the privilege of hunting with my friend, John Roswech, who has experience a similar transition as my founder shift. I learned much in talks with him.
Today I drive 600 miles or 1,000 kilometers home. I praise God to have 12 birds in the cooler. Meat for the winter. God supplies, but Grace and I had to work to harvest it. Walked 80,000 steps in 4 days.
While I was hunting birds up, I love the word picture that God is hunting me up. He’s giving all his effort and resources to look after me. What an amazing God we serve.