Pink Wednesday

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture. An unknown God can neither be trusted, served, nor worshipped.

These astute words, uttered by Arthur W. Pink, are foundational to Christianity. We must know our God - as He has chosen to reveal Himself - if we are to worship Him as we ought. I trust that there are many Christians out there in the blogosphere in whom the Spirit has cultivated a deep passion for the knowledge of God. Yet still, there are others that have not yet been exposed to the riches of His grace - something upon which we all need to often meditate.

When the Spirit graciously revealed the glory of Christ to me, my father, being the godly man-of-concern that he is, suggested that I read The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink so that the foundation upon which my Christian life was built would be a deep, biblical, awful, glorious understanding of the riches of the eternal God, His essence, and His activity. This is one of those works to which I will often return. And I trust that it will benefit you as well.

Here is Chapter one of The Attributes of God, "The Solitariness of God."

And here is a quick excerpt:

"In the beginning, God" (Gen. 1:1). There was a time, if "time" is could be called, when God, in the unity of His nature (though subsisting equally in three Divine Persons), dwelt all alone. "In the beginning, God." There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage His attention. There were no angels to hymn His praises; no universe to be upheld by the word of His power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but "from everlasting." During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal. 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished.