Psalm 51:1–4 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my
transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my
sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you,
you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be
justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Among
Christians of all ages and of varying shades of doctrinal emphasis there has
been fairly full agreement on one thing: They all believed that it was
important that the Christian with serious spiritual aspirations should learn to
meditate long and often on God.
Let a
Christian insist upon rising above the poor average of current religious
experience and he will soon come up against the need to know God Himself as the
ultimate goal of all Christian doctrine.
Let him
seek to explore the sacred wonders of the Triune Godhead and he will discover
that sustained and intelligently directed meditation on the Person of God is
imperative. To know God well he must think on Him unceasingly. Nothing that man
has discovered about himself or God has revealed any shortcut to pure
spirituality. It is still free, but tremendously costly.
Of course
this presupposes at least a fair amount of sound theological knowledge. To seek
God apart from His own self-disclosure in the inspired Scriptures is not only
futile but dangerous. There must be also a knowledge of and complete trust in
Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer.
Christ is
not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is
the only way. ?I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me? (John 14:6).
To
believe otherwise is to be something less than a Christian.
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