A Library Of Resources For Spiritual Growth
The question is simple: Do you know this awesome God? This God the philosophers have called the mysterium tremendum—the tremendous mystery, the awesome mystery. Before this mysterium tremendum, Jacob cried, “How dreadful is this place; this is the house of God.” In the New Testament, Peter said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am unclean.” Abraham said, “I am but dust and ashes.”
Job was speechless before God. Job was an orator and probably would have made a good politician or an evangelist. He could open his mouth and words would flow out like water out of a flask. But when God revealed himself to him, Job laid his hands on his mouth and said, “O God, I cannot speak.”
Many people are not getting anyplace with God because they have never met that kind of God. Their God is a self-made God and carries with Him no mystery or majesty. I will never bow my knee to a self-made or handmade God. I bow my knee to that mysterium tremendum—that awesome majesty we call our Father, which art in heaven.
Delighting In God - A.W. Tozer
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