Many … apparently overlook the fact that the Spirit of God never promised to fill a man’s head. The promise is that God will fill the heart, or man’s innermost being. The Word of God makes it very plain that the church of Jesus Christ will never operate and minister and prosper by the stock of knowledge in the heads of Christian believers but by the warmth and urgency of God’s love and compassion flowing through their beings.
Now, don’t throw your head away—you are going to need it! I am convinced that God has made it plain that man alone, of all the creatures on earth, is created so that he can have fullness of knowledge about the earth and all the wonders and glories that it holds. I believe that through grace man can have a fullness of knowledge even about the works of God—but this certainly does not mean that we find Him and know Him and love Him through thought processes and human wisdom.
It is utterly and completely futile to try to think our way through to knowing God, Who is beyond our power of thought or visualization. This does not mean that it is impossible for us to think about Him—but it does mean that we cannot think around Him or think equal to Him or think up to Him!…
If we are not in love with Christ Himself and if we are satisfied with a knowledge of the works of God and of systems of theology, our hunger for God will not be satisfied.
Romans 11:33–36; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Philippians 3:10
I Talk Back to the Devil, 101, 102.
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