by A. W. Tozer
And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. (John 17:3)
A. W. Tozer always has a way of making us stop and reflect on God in all of His holiness and beauty. How strange that the One we worship can be profaned by our carnal thoughts. "What comes to our mind when we think about god is the most important thing about us," said Tozer. What do we really think about Him?
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. . .
With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adorning silence. . .
. . . . It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate. If we would bring back spiritual power to our lives, we must begin to think of God more nearly as He is.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. . . . We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
What comes to your mind when you think about God? . . . . Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.
. . . The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place. . . . Wrong ideas about God . . . are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
Oh Lord God Almighty . . . enlighten our minds that we may know Thee as Thou art, so that we may perfectly love Thee and worthily praise Thee (A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, pp. 6-12).
And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory which I ever had with Thee before the world was. . . . And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they maybe perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me .(John 17:5, 22-23)