LONGING
FOR GOD; KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: PERSONAL, INTIMATE

Theological knowledge is knowledge about God. While this is indispensable it is not sufficient. It bears the same relation to man’s spiritual need as a well does to the need of his physical body. It is not the rock-lined pit for which the dusty traveler longs, but the sweet, cool water that flows up from it. It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man’s ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and Presence of God Himself.

Psalm 42:1–2; Psalm 63:1–2; Psalm 143:5–6; Philippians 3:10

Keys to the Deeper Life, 30, 31.