Blinded and Single-Minded

In the introduction to his modern day classic, Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster writes of what he calls the "Devotional Masters of the Christian faith,""These 'saints,' as we sometimes call them, knew God in a way that I clearly did not. They experienced Jesus as the defining reality of their lives. They possessed a flaming vision of God that blinded them to all competing loyalties. They experienced life built on the Rock."