Hey friends and fam,I wanted to share with you a quote that knocked my socks off when I read it this morning. We're taking a leadership training class through our church here and so we're reading 2 books by Tozer. Can I just say, GOOD STUFF?! We're loving it. God's teaching us so much; His Spirit is changing us from the inside out. This is not just head knowledge, but heart-transforming revelations of who He is and how He loves us. Anyway, here you go:
This is from The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer:
"And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely....... No unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew Him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us. 'For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.'"
There ya go! Nothing can snatch us out of God's hand. He knows us through and through and loves us deeply, down to the deepest, most hidden parts of us. Does He LIKE our sin? No - He hates anything that keeps us from true fellowship with Him...but it's out of desire for deep relationship with us that He calls us out of our sin and into holy living. No failure or weakness or sinful desire inside of us can ever surprise Him or repel Him. Before we were even in our mother's womb He knew every part of us, everything we would ever think, feel, speak, and do, and He chose to love us. How freeing!!! Kind of kicks condemnation and false guilt in the butt, huh?!
I was so struck by this that I just had to share....
Love to you all. May you encounter HIS love for you in new ways today.
1 comment:
Dana, that's great! I think I'll try and track that book down. thanks for sharing!
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