GOD IS THE MOST WINSOME OF ALL BEINGS

By A. W. Tozer

. . . Truly our fellowship is with the Father,
and with his Son, Jesus Christ.  - 1 John 1:3

       Nothing twists and deforms the human soul more
than a low or unworthy conception of God and His
kindness.

   To a Pharisee in the days of Christ, the service of God
was a bondage which he did not love but from which he
could not escape without a loss too great to bear.

   The God of the Pharisees was not a God easy to live
with, so his religion became grim and hard and loveless.
It had to be so, for our notion of God must always
determine the quality of our religion.

   Much Christianity since the days of Christ's flesh has
also been grim and severe. And the cause has been the
same-an unworthy or an inadequate view of God.

       Instinctively we try to be like our God, and if He is
conceived to be stern and exacting, so will we ourselves
be.

   From a failure properly to understand God comes a
world of unhappiness among good Christians even
today. The Christian life is thought to be a glum,
unrelieved cross-carrying under the eye of a stern
Father who expects much and excuses nothing-a God
austere, peevish, highly temperamental and extremely
hard to please!

   The kind of life which springs out of such libelous
notions must of necessity be but a parody on the true
life in Christ.

   The truth is that God is the most winsome of all
beings and His service one of unspeakable pleasure.
Those who trust Him have found His mercy always in
triumph over justice, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.