"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35)
We being what we are and all things else being what they are, the most important and profitable study any of us can engage in is without question the study of theology.
That theology probably receives less attention than any other subject tells us nothing about its importance or lack of it. It indicates, rather, that men are still hiding from the presence of God among the trees of the garden and feel acutely uncomfortable when the matter of their relation to God is brought up!
They sense their deep alienation from God and only manage to live at peace with themselves by forgetting that they are not at peace with God.
It is precisely because God IS, and because man is made in His image and is accountable to Him, that theology is so critically important. Christian revelation alone has the answer to life's unanswered questions about God and human destiny.
To let these authoritative answers lie neglected while we search everywhere else for answers and find none is, it seems to me, nothing less than folly!
Whatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to me. Whatever engages my attention when I should be meditating on God and things eternal does injury to my soul. Let the cares of life crowd out the Scriptures from my mind and I have suffered loss where I can least afford it. The secret of life is theological and the key to heave, as well!
~A. W. Tozer~
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