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ISBN-10: 1478310146
Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781478310143
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God is so all-encompassing and so beyond us, that it takes a lifetime to begin to scratch the surface of who he is. These meditations, written by a Christianity Today editor, will help you think about who he is and what that means for the way you live.
God is so all-encompassing and so beyond us, that it takes a lifetime to begin to scratch the surface of who he is. These meditations, written by a Christianity Today editor, will help you think about who he is and what that means for the way you live.
Excerpt
What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
—A. W. Tozer
When I was a college freshman, I was a new Christian with almost no Bible knowledge. However, I soaked things up as fast as I could by being involved in a campus ministry and regularly attending a great church. Because I was learning so much so quickly, I had a feeling of pride that I’d gotten the Christian life down and knew quite a bit about this God I was discovering.
Around this time, I was waiting for a friend in our dorm lobby. Looking for something to do, I picked up a pamphlet someone had left that contained chapters 38–42:6 of the Book of Job. It began with the Lord saying, “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation” and ended with Job saying, “Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.” When I finished reading it, I was in tears. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of the awesomeness of God. And it undid me. In a way, I’ve never recovered from first reading those chapters. They profoundly changed the way I viewed God. Since then, I’ve continually been astounded by His majesty and intrigued by His mystery.
Alfred Tennyson called Job “the greatest poem of ancient or modern times.” British author Thomas Carlyle viewed it as “one of the grandest things ever written with a pen.” All that is true, but most of all it contains the words of an awesome God.
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