How do you want to be remembered when you finally die? Who do you know that would be faithful enough to follow you wherever you go? When we seek out God in prayer do we actually expect God to listen and respond to our request? Is there a relation between Baal-zebub in 2 Kings and Beelzebul in Matthew? These are the questions that I asked as I read about two moments in Elijah’s life related in 2 Kings 1 and 2. The first moment we see is Elijah telling Ahaziah that he would die for honoring pagan gods above the one true God and the second moment Elisha replaces Elijah as prophet. Continue Reading…
Tag Archive - The Knowledge of The Holy
Rekindling the reverence, awe, and wonder of God: 2 Kings 1 and 2
A holy calling by grace through faith in Christ: Leviticus 21 and 22
In Leviticus 21 and 22 rules and laws are given by God for Aaron and his descendants for all generations. The priests were not allowed to approach a dead person unless it was a relative and the high priest was forbidden to approach a dead body even of his own relatives. The priest’s needed to live above reproach. They needed to follow God’s commands in regard to mourning death. When customs in that time were to shave your head, cut your beard, and cut your body in mourning the priests could not because they were set apart by God as Holy. Continue Reading…
Thoughts on God – The insurmountable truth of the Nature of God
I have been reading The Knowledge of The Holy by A.W. Tozer over the past month. I find myself obsessing over who God truly is. How can I a created being know who God is! I feel like I have never fully appreciated the depth and breadth of the knowledge void in my mind regarding the nature of God. I find my mind overloaded as I try to sort out these awesome truths of scripture. I hope to encourage everyone as I take this journey of faith. Continue Reading…
Amazing truth in the presence of an amazing God
“Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, but love inflates our hearts and constrains us to speak.
Were we to hold our peace the stones would cry out; yet if we speak what shall we say? Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
-A.W. Tozer “The Knowledge of the Holy”
