This World: Playground or Battleground? is a wonderful
call to the real world or the spiritual life. Christianity exercised a dominant
influence over the thinking of our forefathers. They conceived the world as a battleground.
They believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and . . .
in God and righteousness and heaven as the other. How different today. People think
of the world not as a battleground, but as a playground.
In This World:
Playground or Battleground?, Tozer calls us to see the real world of the spiritual
that lies beyond the physical world that so ensnares us. It can be read as
a daily devotional or as a premeditative salve for the soul as you prepare to come
into communion with God. The text is short and to the point, abrupt but full of
vigor, profound, and downright relevant today. Take this excerpt from the first
chapter, "People think of the world not as a battleground but as a playground. We
are not here to fight; we are here to frolic. . .The "worship"' growing out of such
a view itself--has become a sort of sanctified nightclub without champagne. . . "
