Found a Gem

I picked up this little gem over at Of first Importance. It's too good not to repeat:

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. We may as well try to instruct leprosy out of our system. There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment.

A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, Inc., 1993), 43.