Still on this Tozer kick. He brought up the box mentality I talked about yesterday. So often we are worshiping this idea of who we think God is instead of God as he actually is. However, our thoughts of God are what form the foundation to every piece of our faith. It is the base of who we are. No man is greater than our concept of God. Parallel, to religion has ever exceeded its concept of God. We are what we worship. This is a point that was brought up in my Psalms class. We become what we worship. that is why it says in Jeremiah 5:21 that Israel became a people with eyes that could not see, ears, but could not hear, and mouths that did not speak. They became the idols that they worshiped.
So often in the church today, we look at other cultures and judge for the statues they worship. We even point at our own culture and exclaim how we have fallen into the hands of consumerism where we worship at banks and shopping malls. Or sex with porn sites, strip clubs, and the red light district. However, when did we look at our God and ask, what box have I put you in? What are the misconceptions we have used to harness our Creator? We can not be above the one who made us, but if we do not expand our minds our concept will never be open. We become what we worship and no longer are we made in the image of God, but we make god in the image of us. We create a graven image in our mind which diverts to our hearts and is show in our fruit. Where are our roots? Where are our hearts? What are we worshiping.
Abba,
show me who you really are. not as Iview you or think of you, but as you. Weed out the incorrect perceptions that keep me from grasping the totality of who you are. Allow me to know you. Open my mind to your word and give me understanding of what you are saying, not what my life brings to the text, but what the text brings to my life. Don't allow me to slip into the trap of forgetting who you are. Give me grace to remember the testimony that you hasve given me, bringing me from death into life, darkness to light, from Egypt to the promiseland. Allow me to know you for who you are. Break my box.
Amen
So often in the church today, we look at other cultures and judge for the statues they worship. We even point at our own culture and exclaim how we have fallen into the hands of consumerism where we worship at banks and shopping malls. Or sex with porn sites, strip clubs, and the red light district. However, when did we look at our God and ask, what box have I put you in? What are the misconceptions we have used to harness our Creator? We can not be above the one who made us, but if we do not expand our minds our concept will never be open. We become what we worship and no longer are we made in the image of God, but we make god in the image of us. We create a graven image in our mind which diverts to our hearts and is show in our fruit. Where are our roots? Where are our hearts? What are we worshiping.
Abba,
show me who you really are. not as Iview you or think of you, but as you. Weed out the incorrect perceptions that keep me from grasping the totality of who you are. Allow me to know you. Open my mind to your word and give me understanding of what you are saying, not what my life brings to the text, but what the text brings to my life. Don't allow me to slip into the trap of forgetting who you are. Give me grace to remember the testimony that you hasve given me, bringing me from death into life, darkness to light, from Egypt to the promiseland. Allow me to know you for who you are. Break my box.
Amen
Amen to that!!
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