Dr. Baxter Kruger refers to this inner tension as the windshield wiper of the soul that vacillates between two visions of God. The first is powerful and transcendent, a God of glory or might, sitting on a distant throne wrapped in unapproachable light. While this transcendent imagination of God might inspire awe and fear, it does not generate relational embrace or ease. But there is a second, qualitatively divergent vision of God that also attracts us. It doesn’t begin with the mind trying to grasp the immensity and grandeur of God, but the heart that yearns for beauty and the wonder of being
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