The Knowledge of the Holy

by A.W. Tozer

It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate. If we would bring back spiritual power to our lives, we must begin to think of God more nearly as He is.

Having right view of God

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

In other words, when our minds are entertained by an idea that is utterly wrong about God, that is an act of idolatry. How my mind is entertained?

Wrong ideas about God are not only the fountain from which the polluted waters of idolatry flow; they are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.