Delighting in God by A.W. Tozer

Author:A.W. Tozer [Tozer, A.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: God (Christianity)—Attributes—Sermons, REL012000, God (Christianity)—Worship and love—Sermons, REL012120, God (Christianity)—Sermons
ISBN: 9781441228918
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Our Perception of God’s Perfection

I long for Thee, O God, in all Thy perfection. My mind cannot comprehend the wonders of Thy perfection, and I stagger trying to understand Thee. What my mind cannot grasp, my heart can in full wonder and adoration. Fill my heart with Thyself. The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this mind of mine. Amen.

The challenge before me is to describe that which cannot be described. When describing God, who is unlimited in every aspect, we are challenged by our human limitations. God makes the greatest demand on our intelligence and imagination and powers of reason, requiring us to picture a mode of being we are not familiar with, a mode of being wholly beyond ourselves, a mode of being unlike anything we have ever known.

We must keep in mind one thing: All I say about God is still not God, because theology, at its finest moment, can do no more than tell us about God. To know about God and to know God are two absolutely different things. Most people confuse knowing about God with knowing God, and this, in my opinion, is at the core of many of our problems in the evangelical church today.

Let me say that if you ever know God, you are going to have to enter in by the new birth, by the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and by the revelation of the Spirit. There must be revelation and illumination. You have to have truth revealed to you, but until there is illumination of that truth, it does not do you any good. Only the Holy Spirit can make us know God. That is why when we speak of the Holy Spirit, we ought not to speak apologetically, and nobody ought to be ashamed to preach about the Holy Spirit or be afraid to talk about Him, for the reason that only He can make us know.

Theology can teach us about God, and that is what this book is all about.

One problem in describing God is that we use ourselves as a pattern, push that up into the heavens, and say that is what God is like. God is bigger than we are, of course. But He is one size and we are another size, so we begin to think of God in terms of our limitations. When we try to describe God this way, we end up with a caricature of God, a God that is not worthy of our worship. Too many people are worshiping the God of their own imaginations.

If we are really going to understand God, we need to see Him in light of infinity. I mean by that, God is infinite in every aspect of himself. What I mean about the infinitude of God is that God knows no limit, and right there is where we stop. The human mind can go a long way, but it cannot go all the way to limitlessness. But God is limitless, boundless, and has no end.

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