The Knowledge Of God

How can we describe God’s knowledge? Arthur Pink in his book “Gleanings in the Godhead” wrote, “God is omniscient, he knows everything; everything possible, everything actual; all events all creatures, of the past, the present and the future. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth, and in hell . . . nothing escapes His notice, nothing can be hidden from Him, nothing is forgotten by Him. . . He never errs, never changes, never overlooks anything” (pg.19). A.W. Tozer in his book The Knowledge of the Holy expands this description by adding negatives: “God has never learned from anyone. God cannot learn. Could God at any time or in any manner receive into his mind knowledge that he did not possess and had not processed from eternity, He would be imperfect and less than himself. To think of a God who must sit at the feet of a teacher, even though that teacher be an archangel or a seraph, is to think of someone other than the most high God, maker of heaven and earth. . . 

These are awesome thoughts that will help you stand in awe of God.

What Is the Most Important Thing about Us?

A. W. Tozer:

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. This is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company of Christians that composes the Church. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God.

-A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1978), 1.

Justin Taylor

The Source of True Unity

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

--A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Camp Hill, Penn.: Christian, 1982), 80.
Dane Ortlund