Parable Of The Two Lost Sons

Aug 4, 2024    John Dixon

 

What do you suppose God is like? 


A.W. Tozer would say, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us... We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. This is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company of Christians that composes the Church. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God."

A.W. Tozer "The Knowledge of the Holy" (1978)


Good, right? 


A few decades before Tozer, another great thinker was wrestling with the most important thing about us:


"I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us."

—C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory” (1941)