![]() That his readers would know God more deeply is the main theme of Paul’s prayer (Eph. ![]() And if that was true of Paul, who wasn’t exactly an average believer, how much more is it true of us! As the prophet Hosea wrote (6:3), “let us press on to know the Lord.” After 25 years as a believer, the apostle Paul said that he had not yet attained to knowing Christ as he ought, but he pressed on toward that goal (Phil. And yet there is another sense in which we need to know God far more deeply than we do. Jesus prayed (John 17:3), “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” If you have eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, you have come to know God. There is a legitimate sense in which every believer has come to know God. He meant, of course, to know God well, to know Him deeply, to know Him truly, as He is revealed in His Word. If Tozer was right, then Martyn Lloyd-Jones was also right when he said, “Our supreme need is to know God” ( God’s Ultimate Purpose, p. 115:8), “Those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.” ![]() 9) with this provocative sentence: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” He goes on to argue ( ibid.), “We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.” His words, of course, reflect the psalmist’s comment concerning those who worship idols (Ps. Tozer begins his classic, The Knowledge of the Holy, p. ![]()
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