Today's post is from A.W. Tozer. After Sunday's discussion of John 2:13-25
where we shared some thoughts on Jesus' dismantling of the foolishness going
on at the Temple, posting this devotional seems appropriate. As I mentioned
Sunday, most of us love the "Lamb" part of our Lord's character, but we
struggle with with the "Lion." Oh Lord, help us embrace all of you!

"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they
were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that
they had been with Jesus." --Acts 4:13

"The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous
as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. The delicate, brittle saints
being produced in our religious hothouses today are hardly to be compared
with the committed, expendable believers who once gave their witness among
men. And the fault lies with our leaders. They are too timid to tell the
people all the truth. They are now asking men to give to God that which
costs them nothing.

Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed
of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them
interested. About theology they know little. Scarcely any of them have read
even one of the great Christian classics, but most of them are familiar with
religious fiction and spin-tingling films. No wonder their moral and
spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents
of a faith they never really understood."

A.W. Tozer, That Incredible Christian, page 76.