Ten-Minute Tozer
This is my first read-through of Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer. To facilitate my effot to wrap my bubble-gum-ball-sized brain around the blimp of revelation in this book, I have summarized it for your convenient perusal. Ok, not so much ‘convenient’ as…’illuminating’: to provide, cover, or fill with light.
So feast your mind on our incredible God and a new way of thinking about Him.
Chapter 1: We must know God as He is, not as our mind construct Him to be.
Chapter 2: We can’t know God because He is God; but He told us a few things that are true, good descriptions of Himself: attributes.
Chapter 3: Attributes of God are not parts of a whole, like they are with us; they are His way, the ‘how’ He is His unified, undivided self.
Chapter 4: The Trinity is not ‘confusion’ but ‘mystery’; but three are are indeed one. Love and Faith go in and gaze; Reason kneels in reverence. For all three act in one throughout creation, incarnation, baptism, atonement, resurrection, salvation, and indwelling. (See the book for a cool list of Scripture references–or if you’re really interested, ask and I’ll post them 
Chapter 5: As God Uncreated, He must give account of Himself to no one. He is. The essence of sin is ‘I am’.–yet it is our echo of His image. Thus, our life is redeemed, raised in Christ. Self-awareness separate from God-awareness is the essence of sin.
Chapter 6: God can desire but He cannot need.
(To be continued…)
