The Most Important Thing About Us

Our 20s Book Of The Summer is A.W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of the Holy. It might be true to say that no other book has had a more powerful influence on my life. It was reading this book 8 years ago that first turned me on to studying theology. I couldn't put the book down as soon as I read Tozer's line in chapter 1:

"The most important thing about us is what comes into our minds when we think about God."

Somehow, I knew Tozer was right. And I knew that what was coming into my mind when I thought about God was sorely lacking. So, I devoured this book. The Spirit was at work.I still remember, as a junior in college, driving along a dark highway late at night in Idaho during a family vacation, impatiently waiting for the next patch of moonlight to break through the surrounding trees so that I could read the next sentence in this book. If I got a good break in the trees I could sometimes read a whole paragraph. During that  2 hr. drive I got through, maybe, 2 chapters. Yet it was 2 chapters of mind and heart re-constructive surgery as I came to behold a far grander vision of God than I'd ever before encountered.  I love this book because I love the God it depicts. It will be a thrill to watch how God uses this book among the twentysomethings of our church this summer.Mom, thanks for giving this book to me as a Christmas gift in 1999.