The

Attributes of God

Volume 1

A Journey Into the Father’s Heart

by

A. W. Tozer

© 1997 by Zur Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tozer, A. W., 1897–1963

The Attributes of God Volume 1, with Study Guide / A. W. Tozer.

978-1-60066-129-7

Contents

1. God’s Infinitude

2. God’s Immensity

3. God’s Goodness

4. God’s Justice

5. God’s Mercy

6. God’s Grace

7. God’s Omnipresence

8. God’s Immanence

9. God’s Holiness

10. God’s Perfection

Chapter 1

God’s Infinitude

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:1–3)

The last eight words of this verse would make a good sermon for anybody: “Your life is hid with Christ in God.” I want to go to a book written six hundred years ago and quote a few things, weaving it into this message about the journey into the heart of God: “with Christ in God.”

The Journey to Infinity

This book was written by Lady Julian of Norwich, a very saintly woman.

I want to quote what this lady said about the Trinity: “Suddenly the Trinity filled my heart with joy. And I understood that so it shall be in heaven without end.” This is a step up from the utilitarian heaven that most people want to go to, where they’ll have everything right—a split-level home, two cars and a fountain, a swimming pool and golden streets. Lady Julian saw that heaven will be heaven because the Trinity will fill our hearts with “joy without end,” for the Trinity is God and God is the Trinity. The Trinity is our Maker and Keeper, and the Trinity is our everlasting love and everlasting joy and bliss.

All these things marked Jesus Christ, and, as Julian said, “where Jesus appeareth the blessed Trinity is understood.” We must get into our heads and hearts that Jesus Christ is the full, complete manifestation of the Trinity: “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9). He set forth the glory of the Triune God, all the God there is! Where Jesus appears, God is. And where Jesus is glorified, God is.

I wouldn’t quote anybody unless there were Scripture to confirm it, and Scripture does indeed confirm that the Trinity will fill our hearts. “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit” (1 John 4:12–13). There you have the Father and the Spirit. “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God” (4:14–15). There you have the Father and the Son, or the Trinity.

“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in ...