The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Week 10: Chapter IX — Meekness and Rest
Read Chapter IX of The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. Primary Scripture: Matthew 5:5; Matthew 11:28-30.
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Tozer offers a surprising diagnosis of the exhaustion that plagues modern people: we are crushed under the weight of pride, pretense, and artificiality — burdens Jesus never meant us to carry. The cure is meekness.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Tozer opens with a striking observation: take the Beatitudes and reverse them, and you have an accurate description of the human race — proud, pleasure-seeking, arrogant, self-satisfied, cruel, corrupt, quarrelsome, retaliatory. Do you find this to be an accurate diagnosis? What does it say about the radicality of Jesus' vision of human flourishing?
2.He identifies the burden Jesus invites us to lay down as an inner one — not poverty or political oppression, but the burden of *pride*: "the heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy." How much mental and emotional energy do you spend protecting your sense of self? Is this a burden you recognize in yourself?
3.Tozer describes the meek person with a memorable phrase: "He has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life." This is not self-deprecation but clear-eyed accuracy. What is God's estimate of us — both the humbling part and the exalting part?
a.Tozer writes: "In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto." How would living from that motto change your daily experience?
b.The meek man is "not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority" — he may be "bold as a lion." What is the difference between meekness and timidity?
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