This Little Cheap God

"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever." (1 Timothy 1:17)

If God had goodness, but there was one spot in God that wasn't good, then He wouldn't be our God and Father. If God had love but didn't have all the love, just ninety-nine and nine-tenths percent of the love - or even a higher percentage - God still wouldn't be God. God, to be God, must be infinite in all that He is. He must have no bound and no limit, no stopping place, no point beyond which He can't go. When you think of God or anything about God you'll have to think infinitely about God.

You may have a charley horse in your head for two weeks after trying to follow this, but it's a mighty good cure for this little cheap god we have today! This little cheap god we've made up is one you can pal around with - "the Man upstairs," the fellow who helps you win baseball games. That god isn't the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He isn't the God who laid the foundations of the heaven and the earth; he's some other god.

Lord, forgive me for assuming such a cheap familiarity with such an awesome God. You are worthy of so much more. May I begin to learn to think infinitely about You today. Amen

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A Journey Into God

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." (Ephesians 1:18)

The Church will come out of her doldrums when we find out that salvation is not a lightbulb only, that it is not an insurance policy against hell only, but that it is a gateway into God and that God is all that we would have and can desire. Again I quote [Lady] Julian: "I saw that God is to us everything that is good and comfortable. He is our clothing; His love wrapped us and claspeth us and all encloseth us for His tender love, that He may never leave us, being to us all that is good."

Christianity is a gateway into God. And then when you get into God, "with Christ in God," then you're on a journey into infinity, into infinitude. There is no limit and no place to stop. There isn't just one work of grace, or a second work or a third work, and then that's it. There are numberless experiences and spiritual epochs and crises that can take place in you life while you are journeying out into the heart of God in Christ.

Lord, whether we've been Your children for five months or fifty years, may of us are just beginning our journey through the gateway of Christianity. Open my eyes to all that You are and I can be in me. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~