Maria Miller’s Reviews > Knowing God > Status Update

“For the truth is that God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost
everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.”

“Perhaps his purpose is simply to draw us closer to himself in conscious communion with him; for it is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.”

“Knowing God is a matter of grace. It is a relationship in which
the initiative throughout is with God—as it must be, since God is so
completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his
favor by our sins. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us.”

“God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we would like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out…in our own lives.”

“It is not a sharing in all his knowledge, but a disposition to confess that he is wise, and to cleave to him…”

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