Good evening and welcome. It's time once again for an A.W. Tozer posting. I am constantly amazed at what this man writes, a lot of times I have to read through it two or three times. So here is tonight's posting.
To many God is but an idea, another name for goodness, or beauty, or truth; or He is law, or life, or the creative impulse behind the phenomena of existence.
These notions about God are many and varied, but those who hold them have one thing in common. They do not know God in personal experience. The possibility of intimate acquaintance with Him has not entered their mind... For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to non-Christians. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.
God is real. He is real in the absolute and final sense that nothing else is. All other reality is contingent upon His. The worshipping heart does not create its object. It finds Him here when it wakes from its mortal slumber in to the morning of its regeneration.
Now some would say that our faith based on something from our imagination. Something or someone we imagined to help us cope or explain things we do not understand. Mr. Tozer responds this way as he continues his thought on what is real.
Imagination is not faith. The two are not only different from, but also stand in sharp opposition to each other. Imagination projects unreal images out of the mind and seeks to attach reality to them. Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there. God and the spiritual world are real. We can reckon upon them with as much assurance as we reckon on the world around us. The spiritual is real.
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