In a recent chapter I was reading out of his book "The Knowledge of the Holy", A.W. Tozer was discussing God's eternity. He beautifully was able to maneuver this topic back to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Tozer explains God's eternality in such stirring quotes as "He (God) has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays". He then goes on to talk of God's eternity present in God's image within us (Gen 1:27) in the sense that "we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time". This is where the gospel comes to the rescue. I'll let Tozer speak for himself:
"The ancient image of God whispers within every man of everlasting hope; somewhere he will continue to exist. Still he cannot rejoice, for the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world trouble his conscience, frightening him with proofs of guilt and evidences of coming death. So is he ground between the upper millstone of hope and the nether stone of fear.
Just here the sweet relevancy of the Christian message appears. 'Jesus Christ...hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.'" (Tozer "The Knowledge of the Holy" 41-42)
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