Christians are considered by many to be crazy, and, as A.W. Tozer suggests, with good reason:

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 ...

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 late Dr. A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.] 

What about us as Kingdom Seekers Today?

For the believer, nothing in life is as it seems. Possessing faith in the message of God's grace flips absolutely everything on its head.

To live by faith is to engage life itself as a set of paradoxes. By faith we understand that we can't achieve greatness by attempting to be great or become powerful by exerting power. Grace teaches us that nothing can be...

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