Reply To: Knowing God, Chapters 7 & 8

[Lynne Mazza-Hilway]

`Yes Lilla, Packer’s emphasizing *Behold your God ” was beautifully poetic and seems to have gotten both you and Carolyn singing! “Declaring God’s majesty and greatness is always an invitation to worship.” However we ” modern people tend to cherish great thoughts of (our)selves while we have small thoughts of God and therefore need to ‘wait upon the Lord’ in meditation on his majesty, till we find our strength renewed through the writing of these things upon our hearts.”
In trying to compare the past with the present I found it curious that on the one hand Packer seems to present past Christians as having conduct far above ours, perhaps in reference to how they viewed God yet on the other he says that the letters written to them are ” directed against strange errors which, as far as we know, do not now exist.” As we’ve heard in many of our Sunday sermons, there are plenty of consistent similarities of human nature through time. But I do appreciate how he drives home the main idea of God’s immutability. And his humbling reminder that He is the one who “discriminates between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it. He blesses those on whom he sets his love.” Yes, all glory, honor and majesty to our God whom we behold!