Saturday, February 13, 2010

God's Wholeness

In light of these eight characteristics of God, Tozer’s words are all the more true: “God’s attributes are not isolated traits of His character but facets of His unitary being. They are not things-in-themselves; they are, rather, thoughts by which we think of God, aspects of a perfect whole, names given to whatever we know to be true of the Godhead. To have a correct understanding of the attributes it is necessary that we see them all as one.”

God is not wavering back and forth between different characteristics. If God struggles, it is only because humanity is so far from realizing His ideal, His perfect nature, His perfect leadership on earth. God is often on the edge of destroying His work, because it has progressed so far from His creation, so far from the merciful-faithful-generous-true. God’s justice is always put to the test because of humanity’s rejection of God’s ways. But God does not repent of His faithfulness because of this. He does not back off from His mercy when acting in justice. Rather, God is a whole. If it seems that God is willy-nilly, it is not God who is that, but God’s creation.

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