A. W. Tozer says it so well.
“What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
Behold God
And who is our God? How does God describe God in His Word? He is our God of Holy-Love.
A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from caricatures of him, as John Stott reminds us.
“We must picture him neither as an indulgent God who compromises his holiness in order to spare and spoil us, nor as a harsh, vindictive God who suppresses his love in order to crush and destroy us” (The Cross of Christ).
That God is holy and loving is foundational to biblical Christianity and to biblical counseling. The Scriptures express the oneness or unity of God in terms of the complementary, indivisible nature of his holiness and love—his holy love.
Stott refers his readers to ten passages (Exodus 34:6-7; Psalm 85:10; Isaiah 45:21; Habakkuk 3:2; Micah 7:18; John 1:14; Romans 11:22; Romans 3:26; Ephesians 2:3-4; and 1 John 1:9), that highlight God’s holiness and love, then concludes:
“Here are ten couplets, in each of which two complementary truths about God are brought together, as if to remind us that we
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