Prayers with no asking

O God, my hope, my heavenly rest
   My all of happiness below
Grant my important request
   To me, to me, Thy goodness show;
Thy beatific face display
The brightness of eternal day.

Before my faith's enlightened eyes
   Make all Thy gracious goodness pass
Thy goodness is the sight I prize;
  O might I see Thy smiling face
Thy nature in my soul proclaim,
Reveal Thy love, Thy glorious name.

                             Charles Wesley




 Lord of all being, throned afar
Thy glory flames from sun and star
Center and soul of every sphere
Yet to each loving heart how near!

Lord of all life, below, above
Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love
Before thy ever-blazing throne
We ask no luster of our own.

                             Oliver Wendell Holmes

Self-Sufficient God needs no helpers nor defenders!

" The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself....The word necessary is wholly foreign to God...As no one can promote Him, so no one can degrade Him.

Were all human beings suddenly to become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing  to the millions  who benefit from their light. So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way.

 He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections: to doubt Him takes nothing away.

The picture of a nervous, ingratiating God fawning over men to win their favor is not a pleasant one: yet if we look at the popular conception of God that is precisely what e see. Twentieth century Christianity has put God on charity.

Probably the hardest thought of all for our natural egotism to entertain is that God does not need our help. We commonly represent Him as a busy, eager, somewhat frustrated Father hurrying about seeking help to carry out His benevolent plan to bring peace and salvation to the world...The God who worketh all things surely needs no help and no helpers.

Too many missionary appeals are based upon this fancied frustration of Almighty God...I fear that thousands of younger persons enter Christian services from no higher motives than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation. His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of.

Again, God needs no defenders. He is the eternal Undefended.

To be right we must think worthily of God. It is morally imperative that we purge from our minds all ignoble concepts of the Deity and let Him be the God in our minds that He is in His universe."

(Taken from the book,The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer)

N:B

I say amen to all what Tozer had put in words above. Because I cannot think, say or write so beautifully and affirmatively as Tozer who dwells endless hours in commune with God, I choose to share his knowledge of the Holy with those who read my blog so that they too will be blessed and put aright in their concept of God.

The Unfathomable One

                                                   

                                            The Unfathomable One


The words below are not my own. They are taken from the chapter of the Self Existence of God in the book of The Knowledge  of the Holy by A.W. Tozer, who stands high in my evaluation in his ardent devotion to God.

Enjoy the beauty and wisdom of the words as I have and fall prostrate before God Almighty in utter humility to admit that you are nothing without Him and you know nothing of Him unless He in His grace reveals to you in the way He chooses to do so.

"The human mind being created has an understandable uneasiness about the Uncreated.We do not find it comfortable to allow for thepresence of One who is wholly outside of the circle of our familiar knowledge. We tend to be disquieted by the thought of One who does not account to us for His being, who is responsible to no one,who is self-existent, self-dependent and self-sufficient.

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being that they are dedicated to the task of accountng for things and impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosophers and the scientists will admit that there is much that they do not know, but this is quite another thing from admitting that there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

To admit that there is One who lies beyond us who exists outside of all our categories,who will not be dismissed with a name,who will not appear before the bar of our reason,nor submit to our curious inquiries;this requires a great deal of humility,more than most of us possess,so we save face by thinking God down to our level,or at least down to where we can manage Him.

Yet,how He eludes us! For He is everywhere while He is nowhere,for "where" has to do with matter and space,and God is independent of both.  He is unaffected by time or motion,is wholly self-dependent and owes nothing to the worlds His hands have made."

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:
The proper study of mankind is man.

The Cry of a Saintly Man

   
                              The cry of a saintly man


Up now, slight man! Flee for a little while thy occupations;
hide thyself for a time from thy disturbing thoughts.
Cast aside now thy burdensome cares, and put away thy toilsome business.

Yield room for a some little time to God
and rest for a little time in HIm.
Enter the inner chamber of thy mind;
shut out all thoughts save that of God and such as can aid thee in seeking Him.
Speak now, my whole heart!
Speak now to God, saying I seek Thy Face,
Lord will I seek.

                   Anselm