The Pursuit of God

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The Pursuit of God

When we lift our inward eyes to gaze upon God, we are sure to meet friendly eyes gazing back at us, for it is written that the eyes of the Lord range throughout all the earth. The sweet language of experience is “You are the God who sees me” (Gen 16:13, NIV). When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth. When all my striving 4 is turned only toward you because all yours is turned toward me, when I give all my attention only to you and never remove my mind’s eyes because you hold me in your constant vision, and when I direct my love to you alone because you, who are love, are turned toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, except that embrace in which the sweetness of your love so lovingly holds me! 5 So wrote Nicholas of Cusa 6 hundreds of years ago. I should like to say more about this old man of God. He is not much known today anywhere among Christian believers, and among current Fundamentalists 7 he is known not at all. I feel that we could gain much from a little acquaintance with men and women of his spiritual flavor and the school of Christian thought which they represent. Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by the evangelical 4 Striving – Effort, endeavor. 5 Nicholas of Cusa, On the Vision of God , in Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings , translated by H. Lawrence Bond, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist, 1997), 240. 6 Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) – A favorite of Tozer’s who was a wide-ranging medieval scholar, a busy church statesman, and above all an eloquent mystic

whose heart was captured by his vision of God in Christ. 7 Fundamentalists – Very conservative Protestants.