Sublime

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

The theologian Paul Tillich declared that faith is “the state of being ultimately concerned.” He argued that because each person has something of ultimate concern that defines their life and identity, all people are religious—even the atheist. Every person has something in their life that functions as their god. For some, this god-function is occup

you are constantly thinking that He is walking through your feet, working through your hands, accomplishing through your will, you will know Him.

Jesus doesn’t encounter Matthew and John—or you and me—and ask, “What do you know?” He doesn’t even ask, “What do you believe?” He asks, “What do you want?” This is the most incisive, piercing question Jesus can ask of us precisely because we are what we want. Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from w