Wednesday, February 25, 2009

God being who He is, cannot cease to be what He is, and being what He is, He cannot act out of character with Himself. He is at once faithful and immutable, so all His words and acts must be and remain faithful. Men become unfaithful out of desire, fear, weakness, loss of interest, or because of some strong influence from without. Obviously none of these forces can affect God in any way. He is His own reason for all He is and does. He cannot be compelled from without, but ever speaks and acts from within Himself by His own sovereign will as it pleases Him.
The Knowledge of the Holy
A.W. Tozer
This is a short excerpt from A.W. Tozer reminds me of the simple faithfulness that God has. A faithfulness that is just as equal to his character as his omnipotence, immutability, wisdom, grace, goodness, mercy, love, infinitude, self existence, etc... This book has brought light to the fact that all God is is all God is. He is no better at one thing than he is at another. In his perfection he is and was and will be. There is no time where God wasn't or isn't. He is so unique in his being that he is outside any sort of description that we can give him, so he has revealed himself to us in his scripture.
My aim in my life should be to find out how i can, personally, come close to and emulate the characteristics of God that he has shown me. I pray thatwe can daily come to the revelation of the greatness of God. The we can learn to be disciplined in the knowledge that God is "...the beginning and the end. (rev 13:22)"
peace,
Matt

Deuteronomy 32:3-4

3 I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.



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