“We can hold a correct view of truth only by daring to believe everything God has said about Himself. It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God’s self-revelation such features as he in his ignorance deems objectionable.” ~ A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, “The Faithfulness of God.”

Do you believe in all of God, or do you attempt to edit God to your conveniences? Do you pick and choose from His self-revelation, or do you sit in a position of humble submission beneath it? Have you ever thought–whether secretly in the depths of your heart, or musing aloud–that some parts of the Bible are irrelevant, or not for today, or culturally insensitive? It is easy–always easy–to pick and choose. Faithfulness is the hard work. It is easy to cheat on your wife, difficult to remain true; easy to cut corners on a job, difficult to do every part; easy to lie, difficult to tell the truth. And the same faithfulness applies to our approach to God’s self-revelation in the scriptures. It is a simple, easy, polite–and indeed a cowardly thing–to alter our doctrine of God to our own conveniences. It is the difficult, but life-giving matter, to “dare to believe everything God has said about Himself.” Which kind of believer have you set yourself out to be?