Chapter One: Comments & Commentary --Knowledge of the Holy --Tozer

Tozer entitles Chapter One: “Why we Must Think Rightly about God”.
Tozer begins the chapter with a prayer asking
God to “…enlighten our minds that we may know Thee as Thou art…” so that we may perfectly love Him and worthily praise Him. Tozer ends his prayer “…that we may know and call upon God as He is.”
We cannot know and call upon God as He is if we do not think “rightly” about Him.

Our ideas of God (who we think He is) must relate to the reality of God (who He really is).

What we think about God becomes what we believe about God. Right thinking about God is foundational to right belief in God.

Right thinking is necessary to properly love God, completely obey Him, and acceptably worship Him.

Without right thinking about God, we are prone to “idolatry”: that is, assuming that God is other than He is; substituting the true God for one made after our own likeness or conformed to our own image; the product of our wrong thinking. The essence of idolatry is entertaining thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him and that exchange a lofty view of God as creator for a debased or perverted view of Him in the likeness or image of the created.
Why must we "think rightly"?
Necessary for right belief, right relationship, right response, right worship.
Here are some questions to begin asking yourself during this study:
Q: How do you think about God?
Q: What comes into your mind when you think about God?
Q: Are you thinking right thoughts or wrong thoughts?
Q: How do we think “rightly” about God? What are "right" thoughts?
Q: How do we think “wrongly” about God? What are "wrong" thoughts?
Q: What is your idea of God?
Q: What do you conceive God to be like?

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Start reading chapter two this week.