Born After Midnight by A. W. Tozer

Author:A. W. Tozer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 1987-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

With these words Jesus showed how far both Jews and Samaritans were astray in their argument over the proper place to worship. Not the beauty of a city nor the size of a mountain matters to the Father; truth and spirit and all the wealth of moral qualities that gather around them: these are all in all.

It is not uncommon to find college students whose faith in Christ has been badly shaken by their exposure to teachings of science. After a few lectures on astronomy and a look through a telescope, their neat little universe begins to fall apart. The sheer hugeness of the heavenly bodies and the immensity of space overwhelm them. The earth is but a microscopic speck in the vastness of space, a man but an infinitesimal pinpoint on the earth’s surface and God, somewhere out beyond the farthest star, billions of light years removed. How then could God become man and dwell among us? And of what account is a man, insignificantly small and pathetically short-lived?

To think in this way is to confuse size with quality; it is to think ignobly of the Most High God; it is to identify Him with matter and make Him a servant of time and space; it is to degrade our concept of Deity and to fall victim to unbelief.

The truth is that one soul made in the image of God is more precious to Him than the entire starry universe. Astronomy deals with space and matter and motion; theology deals with life and personality and the mystery of being. The body of the psalmist David, for instance, though of average size, was so small that it might have been tucked away in a crevice among the mountains of Judaea and never found, though men had searched for a thousand years. That is size, and it is not very important. But in some inspired hour David wrote the Shepherd Psalm! That is quality, and how precious it is may be inferred from the sound of ten thousand voices singing that psalm every Sunday of the year around the whole world.

The church is dedicated to things that matter. Quality matters. Let’s not be led astray by the size of things.

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