Shadow of the Almightly

If you are thinking about reading this book you should, and if you aren't you should think about it! - I have been very encouraged by it recently-

"It is only when we obey God's laws that we can be quite sure that we really know Him. The man who claims to know God but does not obey His laws is not only a liar, he lives in self-delusion. In practice, the more a man learns to obey God's laws. the more truly and fullly does he express his love for HIm. Obedience is the test of whether we really live "in God" or not. THe life of a man who professes to e living in God must bear the stamp of Christ." -From the preface of Shadow of the Almighty.

Thoughts on thoughts

I met with a friend this week to talk about DKG which to those of you who aren't so familiar with the acronym means doctrine of the knowlege of God. It has effectively attained acronym status proabbly for only a few. But for those few, it is mentioned so very often that you wonder if it ought not be mentioned elseware to a greater degree. I am convinced that so many of our cultural personal ineptitudes as a result of cultural indoctrination would not, if not entirely at least mostly, be swept away. Frame points out that we know things to a greater or lesser degree depending upon how much our thoughts know God's thoughts. This concept blew my mind. God's thoughts are always the Creator's thoughts and therefore are always qualitatively different than ours. Not just quantity. For God's thought of the thing is actually the sustaining of it. When we know a thing that is only possible through knowing what God's thought is. So even in our thinking we have to say that God's active presence is there. This opens a whole new depth to my thoughts on the psalms, "if i were to hide in the depths thou would be there."