God's Word is such a joy, such a delight to me. And at the same time, there's a heavy weight that comes with it that causes me such horror. The pressure is great and the burden is daily. It's the weight of those unbelieving family members and friends who continue on the wrong path. They run happily in the dark with no fear whatsoever that eternity lurks at every turn. Even though their life continues to spiral, they are content to keep God out at all costs. And the horror, the tragedy is their complete ignorance of how an eternity without God looks.
A. W. Tozer in his book, Knowledge of the Holy, expresses it best:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us...
The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems, for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him for very long; but even if the multiple burdens of time may be lifted from him, the one mighty single burden of eternity begins to press down upon him with a weight more crushing than all the woes of the world piled one upon another. That mighty burden is his obligation to God. It includes an instant and lifelong duty to love God with every power of mind and soul, to obey Him perfectly, and to worship him acceptably. And when the man's laboring conscience tells him that he has done none of these things, but has from childhood been guilty of foul revolt against the Majesty in the heaven, the inner pressure of self-accusation may become too heavy to bear. The gospel can lift this destroying burden from the mind, give beauty for ashes, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. But unless the weight of the burden is felt, the gospel can mean nothing to the man; and until he sees a vision of God high and lifted up, there will be no woe and no burden. Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them."
I cannot add a word to such a beautiful and helpful explanation. But as Jesus came to be our supreme Guide and Helper in matters of the supernatural, the Christian, by His light, gives his life to be used to rescue those who drown in their own dark ignorance.
