09/30/09 knowledge of the Holy. some thoughts

It just does this to me.

...and how shall we be held accountable to know what cannot be known..... KOTH-Tozer.

To imagine who God is we come to an image from what we have been taught, what we have experienced, and what we imagine, the best of our experiences as a start, in the very least.  But Tozer is correct to indicate that this image is always going to be far from the Truth of who He is.  He is unreachable, unknowable, and beyond our comprehension.  To create in our minds a picture of Him is to create an idol, which is as sinful as any other, and probably more so because we then worship our concept of Him, limited and powerless – as we have been the creator of that god.

So again, Tozer asks how shall we be held accountable to know what cannot be known?

I agree.  How indeed?  He desires us to know Him.  We have been guilty of producing all manner of idols to worship simply because of our lack of reaching to do just that.  A quandary indeed.

And this is only chapter 2. 

I skipped preface and chapter 1 because there is so much that I can’t begin to address it.  It’s just that this thought fills me with awe and opens a place in my mind that previously did not exist, in that my concept of God though sought with pure motives has been limited only to my mind’s ability to produce.  He Is. Beyond all that I could conjure up in my mind and heart so far that at this point I begin to wonder if I have any true idea at all of who He Is.  Surely my desire to know Him and love Him gives a tiny step towards that goal, and fortunately for grace I am able to stand and live and breath without judgment of my idolatrous ideology.   So must I begin anew in my search for Truth?  I hope not.  Can I finally at least admit that I do NOT know Him in any fashion other than to barely brush the surface of the being that is His Majesty.  Yes.  I so admit.  Now what?  Obviously the search continues and now with more urgent dedication – for to spend any iota of time not in seeking to know Him is to lapse into a wasteland of obscurity in gross neglect of my Christian duty.  And moreover a heinous mistreatment of the heart that He gave me for His service.  So let me repent immediately for my hitherto imaginings of His being and reach wholeheartedly for that knowledge with open minded reverence and desire.