lol, it's a good thing I decided to come back and see what others posted. Thanks for taking the time to answer me I always find it encouraging to hear other people's thoughts and experiences.

Okay, so I felt like a lot of this chapter was talking about a group of people "relativists and idealists" that I really don't understand. So part of it was over my head and I wasn't sure where he was going or who he was battling with these thoughts. Good thoughts, but I just wasn't catching it completely.

The part that does stand out to me is that there is more to life and more to Christianity than lots of us are experiencing. I have had and do have a living and breathing relationship with Jesus, so I feel blessed in that way. I am, however, very sad for those who are "Christian" but have had no real experience with God in a way that would change their lives or inspire them to be something other than a regular American Christian. You know, church on Sunday, pray before meals, buy a good house, vote Republican, eat beef... That is very sad to me and especially sad when I see this in my close friends from college or high school. Not that there is something wrong with my friends, but they really don't know that there is so much more. Tozer writes, 'But why do the very ransomed children of God themselves know so little of that habitual, conscious communion with God which Scripture offers?' This is a great question!
So I thank God that it is Him who begins the work in me, then I ask myself what it is that I can do to put forth the effort to find Him in my life.
O God, quicken to life every power within
me, that I may lay hold on eternal things, Open my
eyes that I may see; give me acute spiritual
perception; enable me to taste Thee and know
that Thou art good. Make heaven more real to
me than earthly thing has ever been.
Amen.