Unlimited Resources
but Limited Receptacles: by AW Tozer
Since God is infinite, whatever He is
must be infinite also; that is, it must be without any actual or conceivable
limits. The moment we allow ourselves to think of God as having limits, the one
of whom we are thinking is not God but someone or something less than and
different from Him. To think rightly of God we must conceive of Him as being
altogether boundless in His goodness, mercy, love, grace and in whatever else
we may properly attribute to the Deity. It is not enough that we acknowledge
God's infinite resources; we must believe also that He is infinitely generous
to bestow them. The first is not too great a strain on our faith. Even the
deist will admit that the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth, must be
rich beyond the power of man to conceive. But to believe that God is a giver as
well as a possessor takes an advanced faith and presupposes that there has been
a divine revelation to that effect which gives validity to our expectations.
Which indeed there has been. We call this revelation the Bible. Believing all
this, why are we Christians so poverty stricken? I think it is because we have
not learned that God's gifts are meted out according to the taker, not
according to the giver. Though almighty and all-wise, God yet cannot pour a great
gift into a small receptacle.
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