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.