Ouch.

I admit to being a pack rat, even with saved posts on my Bloglines page. Back in October 2006, Mike at Waving or Drowning? posted the following quote from A.W. Tozer. I said "Ouch" when I first read it. I say it again today as I finally get around to posting it. It is truly an affliction to the comfortable.

The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist if he allowed himself to do the same thing in the field of music. The idle puttering around that we see in church circles would end the career of a big league pitcher in one week. No scientist could solve his exacting problem if he took as little interest in it as the rank and file of Christians take in the art of being holy. The nation whose soldiers were as soft and undisciplined as the soldiers of the churches would be conquered by the first enemy that attacked it. Triumphs are not won by men in easy chairs.
A.W. Tozer, We Travel an Appointed Way