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  DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING?
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: A.W. Tozer's sermon challenges listeners to recognize their
ignorance of the right path in life and to seek divine guidance for a
hopeful future.

Topics: "Guidance", "Humility"
Scripture References: Psalm 25:4-5, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 16:9, Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 58:11, Jeremiah 10:23, Matthew 7:13-14, John 14:5-6, Romans 8:14

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes the importance of knowing one's destination in
life, asserting that the right path is crucial for reaching a desired
end. He reflects on the uncertainty of human direction, highlighting
that many do not truly know where they are going or how to get there.
Tozer points out that acknowledging our ignorance is the first step
toward finding hope and guidance from God. He warns against the pride of
thinking we know the way, which only leads to darkness. Ultimately, he
calls for humility and reliance on divine wisdom to navigate life's
journey.

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It is a simple axiom of the traveler that if he would arrive at the
desired destination he must take the right road. How far a man may have
traveled is not important; what matters is whether or not he is going
the right way, whether the path he is following will bring him out at
the right place at last.

Sometimes there will be an end to the road, and maybe sooner than he
knows; but when he has gone the last step of the way will he find
himself in a tomorrow of light and peace, or will the toward which he
journeys be a of trouble and distress, a of wasteness and desolation, a
of darkness and gloominess, a of clouds and thick darkness?

The inspired prophet Jeremiah says (and for that matter all the holy
prophets who have spoken since the world began say) and our Lord and His
apostles say that man does not know the way; indeed he hardly knows
where he should go, to say nothing of the way he should take to get
there. The worried Thomas spoke for every man when he asked, Lord, we
know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

That is the truth and we had better face it squarely: the way of man is
not in himself. However severe the blow to our pride, we would do well
to bow our heads and admit our ignorance. For those who know not and
know they know not, there may in the mercy of God be hope; for those who
think they know there can be only increasing darkness.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/do-you-know-where-you-are-going/
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