The veil within my heart
Tozer speaks of the syndrome of the veil —which occludes the light of God, His face, and the unvarnished truth of the gospel from the very depth and understanding of my key spiritual organ—the heart. Specifically he states that it is the veil of my fleshly, fallen nature which lives on within my earthly existence… it is the fleshly, fallen nature which remains un-judged within me. It is not too mysterious, nor is it hard to identify. It is the self-life I have scarcely ever identified, and never truly acknowledged, and of which I have always been secretly ashamed. As an Enneagram 3— deceit is the primary shadow part of my heart that this self-life veil hides. It is very difficult to extract. In fact, it can be extracted only through the cross of Christ…through God’s grace through his blood. This veil is an enemy to my life in Christ, an effective block to any spiritual progress I may experience. The veil is not a beautiful thing, and it is not a thing about which we commonl