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Mar. 29, 2008
The Absoluteness of God
I have been reading The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer, and it is causing me to really think. If there's one central theme of the book that has stood out to me, it is the complete absoluteness of God.
Being absolute is a difficult concept to grasp, because nothing here on earth is absolute. Nothing here on earth is infinite. But it is still possible to attempt to understand, and risk some mind-blowing.
God is absolutely infinite. He has no boundaries in any sense of the word. He cannot be compared to others, because with infinity there are no modifiers. You cannot be more or less infinite. The only comparison that can be made between God and everything else is to say that God is infinite and nothing else is.
God is absolutely complete. To say that he needs anything or anyone would be to imply imperfection, which is inconceivable because God is absolutely perfect. Since God is absolutely complete, he therefore does not need us. It seems like a harsh truth, but it is in fact a wonderful truth. God does not need us, but he does love us. Therefore he sacrificed himself for something he didn't even need. That is absolute love.
God has absolute knowledge. He cannot learn anything because everything that can be known is already known by God, and he has known it for absolute infinity. It reminds me of the light-hearted statement "Has it ever occurred to you that nothing ever occurs to God?"
God is absolutely just, absolutely loving, absolutely good, absolutely merciful, etc. Nothing he does is a contradiction inside himself. God's justice cannot contradict his love and his goodness, or vice versa. If it did, then God would be incomplete within himself, which is unthinkable.
God is absolutely unchanging. What he has been is what he is and what he will be in the future. Therefore, his word is always sure and we worship the exact same God that created Adam thousands of years ago, and the exact same God that existed for absolute infinity before that.
In a similar way, our relationship to God is absolute. We absolutely need God. Since absoluteness cannot be modified, we can never need God more or less. I need God for my very survival, both physical and spiritual, infinitely right now. And I always have and always will need him infinitely. If it seems like I need him more one day than another, that is simply a change in my own awareness, not a change in the absolute fact that I and every other created thing absolutely needs God eternally.
I could go on, but you get the point. Sometimes it's refreshing and awe-inspiring to just sit back and consider these absolutes. And the more we understand God, the better we can worship him. |
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Mar. 29, 2008 - Absolutness
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