Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Beyond Our Power of Thought

"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God" (1 John 4:7)


If you are longing after God with the expectation that you are going to be able to think your way through to Him, you are completely mistaken.


The promise is that God will will the heart, or man's innermost being. The Word of God makes it very plain that the church will never operate and minister and prosper by the stock of knowledge in the heads of Christian believers but by the warmth and urgency of God's love and compassion flowing through their beings.


Now, don't throw your head away - you are going to need it! I am convinced that God has made it plain that man alone, of all the creatures on earth, is created so that he can have fullness of knowledge about the earth and all the wonders and glories that it holds. I believe that through grace man can have a fullness of knowledge even about the works of God - but this certainly does not mean that we find God and know Him and love Him through thought processes and human wisdom.


It is utterly and completely futile to try to think our way through to knowing God, who is beyond our power of thought or visualization.


Lord, it's great to know Your works through the intellect, but it is infinitely more wonderful to know Your Person through a "heart" relationship with You. Fill my heart today, I pray. Amen


~A. W. Tozer~

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