Summary:
When it comes to God there is always to be a personal experience with him. The relationship with God is intimate and fatherly. God is a God of personality and personal acquaintance can be found in him. There is much in the bible that can be known about this personal knowledge of him and much to support it. The Bible shows that we can know God the same way we know any other person we may come to know in our lives as long as we pursue that endeavor. Reality is something that is seeable and obtainable. It is all around us and anyone can see it. Anything that is real is the reality. Christians can be comforted in the fact that God is the only absolute in life and will not let anyone tell them otherwise.
When it comes to knowing God as a Christian, Christians are too honest to play over ideas for their own sake. They know that when it comes to God, the risk is not worth it. God is real and reality is what rides on his existence. Without God, there would be no reality. There would not even be earth without his existence. When it comes to faith, faith cannot make anything. Faith is what reckons what already exists in this world because of God and who he is. As sinful people who make mistakes, we have formed back habits for our thoughts and we think of what we see as real and we tend to not see that others are. This is all done from within our hearts and blindness to what is. When it comes to following God we must choose to be different. Not of our world, but of something else. With our faith in God, what have we lost if we end up being wrong? We have lost nothing. But if we are right we have gained everything.
Analysis:
When looking at what Tozer has written it is really easy for me to see things my mother has taught me long ago. I was always told I have nothing to lose by believing in God. If I end up being wrong I haven’t lost anything. God provides the ultimate life to those who follow him faithfully. But if others who are not in his way, they have lost everything. Their souls included. It is really a matter of seeing if faith is worth it to you. Are you willing to lose your soul in the long wrong or are you ready for a fully committed life in Christ? One of falling in love with the great creator and following his call for you. With God, there's nothing to lose but the world. Gaining the world is not worth losing your very soul. Believing in the unseen seems hard for some people to do, but walking by faith is the true test. Knowing that God is the unseen and wall the path before you with him.
What I Have Learned:
I have learned that what I have learned growing up about faith is completely true and that following God is both reality and reckoning. That reality is seeing the world around us and the reckoning is faith coming to see what God has done so I will continue to walk by faith and form that relationship with God.
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