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God's Love

As I explore the attributes of God, I picked up a work by A. W. Tozer titled, Knowledge of the Holy. In it, Tozer writes on God's many attributes saying, "He never suspends one attribute to exercise another" (p. 68). He explains, "From God's other known attributes we may learn much about His love. We can know, for instance, that because God is self-existent, His love had no beginning; because He is eternal, His love can have no end; because He is infinite, it has no limit; because He is holy, it is the quintessence of all spotless purity; because He is immense, His love is an incomprehensibly vast, bottomless, shoreless sea before which we kneel in joyful silence and from which the loftiest eloquence retreats confused and abashed" (p. 69) This description inspires a sense of awe in the power of my God and reminds me of the gift of being His child. "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And tha