God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea that God is both present in everything He created and simultaneously exists beyond those creations.
Aiden Wilson Tozerβs quote emphasizes the dual nature of God's presence in the universe. It suggests that while God is intimately involved with His creations, being present and active in every aspect of existence, He also transcends these works and exists beyond them. This notion invites reflection on the relationship between the divine and the material world, highlighting the mystery of God's immanence and transcendence.
In practice
In a sermon on the unity of creation and Godβs presence, this quote can effectively illustrate the concept.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
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Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, βWhat is God like?β and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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