“The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting that there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering. To admit that there is One who lies beyond us, who exists outside of all our categories, who will not be dismissed with a name, who will not appear before the bar of our reason, nor submit to our curious inquiries: this requires a great deal of humility, more than most of us possess, so we save face by thinking God down to our level, or at least down to where we can manage Him. Yet how He eludes us!” ~ A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, “The Self-Existence of God.”

Some things can only be known by worship, not intelligence; by submission, not striving. God, so greatly beyond us, is such a One, to whom we must come in the fulness of humility and surrender, allowing Him always to set the terms and the agenda of our encounters, to determine our present and our futures. We do not choose God; we accept God as He chooses to reveal Himself to us. Therefore He is who He is, Alpha and Omega, God before time and before all worlds, Amen.