Are You Sure?

Tozer, still in Keys To The Deeper Life, page 52 asks us if we are sure we want to experience being filled with the Spirit of God. Here is what he tells us will happen, in summated bullet points, if we do:

Are You Sure?

• Are you sure you want to be possessed by a Spirit who will insist upon being Lord of your life?
• Are you sure you want your personality to be take over by One who will require obedience to the written Word?
• Are you sure you are ready to be filled with Someone who won't tolerate any of the self-sins in your life?
• Are you sure you are ready to stop strutting your stuff or boasting, showing off to this world, to friends, to family?
• Are you ready to give the direction of your life completely over to Him?
• Are you ready to be tested and disciplined?
• Are you ready to have many loved objects (that secretly harm your soul) stripped away from you?

Well, are you? Are you ready? Sounds like a lot to me. Sounds like being Christian costs something. Sounds like a complete band and choir are involved. Sounds big and loud...

Sounds familiar to my ears...but never familiar enough.