Knowledge of the Holy
As part of our ongoing training and development with Campus Crusade, we have a required summer reading list! Our first reading assignment was A.W. Tozer’s Knowledge of the Holy. Below are some of my thoughts as I read the book…
God has no need of me. Could there be a more important lesson and reminder for a young missionary? Tozer says, “I fear that thousands of younger persons enter Christian service from no higher motive than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of” (pg 34).
My motives for doing my job say a great deal about what I believe about God. Do I believe that my service in full-time missions is somehow doing God a favor? Of course not. But I do think that I am in danger of the idea that if I didn’t do my job, it wouldn’t get done. I feel a great amount of urgency in fulfilling the Great Commission, in doing evangelism, in reaching the ends of the earth…but what is the source of my urgency? I fear that it is often a subconscious version of Tozer’s quote above.
But when I take time to meditate on the self-sufficiency of God, feelings of overwhelming humility and total insufficiency well up in me. This puts my ministry in proper perspective: I work urgently not from fear, not to save God embarrassment, and not to do that which He could not without my help. I work urgently from a heart obedient to the gracious, sovereign call of God to involve this clay pot in His work.
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