Knowing God: Goal of All ChristianDoctrine

By A. W. Tozer

 

 

Give ear to my words, 0 Lord, consider my meditation.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:

neither shall evil dwell with thee. Psalm 5:1, 4

 

   Among Christians of all ages and of varying shades of

doctrinal emphasis, there has been fairly full agreement on

one thing: they all believed that it was important that the

Christian with serious spiritual aspirations should learn to

meditate long and often on God!

 

    Let a Christian insist upon rising above the poor

average of current religious experience and he will soon

come up against the need to know God Himself as the

ultimate goal of all Christian doctrine.

 

    Let him seek to explore the sacred wonders of the

Triune Godhead and he will discover that sustained and

intelligently directed meditation on the Person of God is

imperative.  To know God well he must think on Him

unceasingly.  Nothing that man has discovered about

himself or God has revealed any shortcut to pure

spirituality.  It is still free, but tremendously costly!

 

    Of course this presupposes at least a fair amount of

sound theological knowledge.  To seek God apart from

His own self-disclosure in the inspired Scriptures - - is not

only futile, but dangerous. There must be also a

knowledge of and complete trust in Jesus Christ as Lord

and Redeemer.

 

 

    Christ is not one of many ways to approach God;

nor is He the best of several ways. . .

He is the only way - -  "The Way, the Truth and the Life."

To believe otherwise is to be something less than a

Christian. 

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.