The Knowledge of the Holy
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This classic of Christian testimony and devotion explores the attributes of God in words that fly straight to the heart. A superb aid to strengthening and deepening the spiritual life, each chapter begins with a prayer, lucidly discusses a divine aspect -- from God's infinity to God's love -- and relates that aspect to today's world, while pointing always to God's wonder and inscrutability. A. W. Tozer asserts that the cause of many of our modern spiritual woes is the loss in today's church of a lofty concept of God. He argues persuasively that the cure lies in our rediscovery of God's majesty. "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us," he writes. "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." The Knowledge of the Holy bearseloquent witness to the concept of God's majesty, encourages reverent meditation on the being of God, and offers a way to bring back spiritual power to our lives.
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I had seen and heard A. W. Tozer quotes quite often before reading this book. When the leader of the book study I'm in announced we were reading this book next, I was excited to learn what else this king of quotes had to say. We read Knowledge of the Holy as an effort to take a look at the character of God so that we may better know him and then better know his will for our lives and be better able to low forward on obedience.
There is so much we reduce and truncate about who God is, all of which I am sure I am guilty of at some time or another. Tozer lays it out on short chapters addressing the different characteristics of God, although it is important to note that God cannot be one of these more than another - self-existing, self-sufficient, infinite, immutable, wise, omnipotent, divinely transcending, omnipresent, faithful, just, merciful, full of grace, loving, holy and sovereign. The Eternity of God (chapter 7), The Wisdom of God (chapter 11) and The Love of God (chapter 20) were a few of my favorite chapters.
Although it is a short book, it was not a quick read for me. I found myself rereading sentences, paragraphs and even pages because of the depth of what is discussed in these 117 pages.
A great book to read and discuss with others.
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