We are interesting folk, those of us who follow Jesus.  If you’re wondering why I say that, read what A .W. Tozer has to say on the subject of why we can afford to wait.

A real Christian is an odd number anyway.   He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels worst.  He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible and knows that which passeth knowledge.  The man who has met God is not looking for something–he has found it; he is not searching for light–upon him the light has already shined.  His certainty may seem bigoted but his is the assurance of one who knows by experience.  His religion is not hearsay; he is not a copy, not a facsimile print; he is an original from the hand of the Holy Spirit.

We have not here described a superior saint–merely a true Christian, far from perfect and with much yet to learn; but his first hand acquaintance with God saves him from the nervous scrabble in which the world is engaged and which is popularly touted as progress.  No doubt we shall yet hear many a tin whistle and see many a parade bravely marching off toward the Universal Brotherhood of Mankind or the Age of Atomic Progress, and we will be expected to fall into step.  Let’s be cautious.  We are waiting for a trumpet note that will call us away from the hurly-burly and set in motion a series of events that will result at last in a new heaven and a new earth.

We can afford to wait.

 

–A. W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous