The Pursuit of God

Chapter 6 The Gaze of the Soul

Faith is much more than mere intellectual assent to certain truth claims. It is the continuous, trusting gaze of a soul upon a saving God. Such inward beholding looks out instead of in whenever it is properly practiced in this self-forgetful way and the Christian’s whole life falls into line. The reciprocal gaze, lovingly back and forth, between God and the attentive believer becomes a relational foretaste of heaven itself. It is less a mental technique and more a tone and disposition to be sustained throughout our daily tasks. ***

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. ~ Hebrews 12:2

Let us think of our intelligent plain man or woman mentioned in chapter five coming for the first time to

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