⁵ Those who put their strength in you are truly happy;
pilgrimage is in their hearts.
⁶ As they pass through the Baca Valley,
they make it a spring of water.
Yes, the early rain covers it with blessings.
⁷ They go from strength to strength,
until they see the supreme God in Zion. (Psalm 84:5-7, CEB)

Life simply overwhelms us. The pace of life crushes us at times. The worry of finances. The concern over time. We rush to make things happen.

Do we have it in us to take up a passionate pursuit of the Holy One anymore? Are we so tired, so busy, so overtaken by… life…  we just can’t breathe?

We need prophetic words like those of A.W. Tozer to somehow reach deep down into our spirits and call us upward once again. We need to break away from the mundane all around us and take up the hot pursuit of the Holy One. We need to bust away from mediocrity all around us.

It will require a determined heart and more than a little courage to wrench ourselves loose from the grip of our times and return to biblical ways. But it can be done. Every now and then in the past Christians have had to do it. (Tozer, The Pursuit of God)

Do we have what it takes?