All Eloquence Is Done

"Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew forth all his praise." (Psalm 106:2)

Old Novatian said, "That in the contemplation of God's majesty, all eloquence is done," which is to say that God is always greater than anything that can be said about Him. No language is worthy of Him. He is more sublime than all sublimity, loftier than all loftiness, more profound than all profundity, more splendid than all splendor, more powerful than all power, more truthful than all truth. Greater than all majesty, more merciful than all mercy, more just than all justice, more pitiful than all pity. Nothing anybody can say about Him is enough.

If God is not the biggest thing in the world to you, not all your talk with ever impress me. We ought to be where God is everything, where we walk into a meeting and God and think God and feel God. We ought to see God all around us, where He comes down over us and we see Him in a vision, in the cool of the day. We ought to see Him on the Cross in blood and tears, and coming down through the sky, riding a white horse, and sitting on a throne judging the nations. But always, we see God and God is everything.

Lord, You are worthy of praise, though words are inadequate to express Your majesty. Today I bow in silence for what have I to say about the God who is everything? Amen

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A Right Conception of God

"For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods... O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker." (Psalm 95:3, 6)

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse. I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

Lord, establish in me a proper conception of You, our great King, that I will have a strong, foundation for my life of faith. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~