Identity

[Doc Thomas]

Every age has its own characteristics. Right now we're in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations & a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time/attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. ... all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly & the peace of God scarcely at all. If we would find God amid all the religious externals, we must first determine to find Him...

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the church is famishing for lack of His presence. The cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter into the Presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and God in us. This would lift us out of pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged. This would burn away the impurities from our lives as the bugs and fungi were burned away by the fire when the bush is burned. What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.