One of my favorite books is Cries of the Heart by Ravi Zacharias (who “just so happens” to be one of my favorite speakers and authors as well). I’d strongly recommend this book to everyone. Ravi has a way of taking things that you’ve always thought and/or felt but never been able to articulate, and he puts them on a page. In this particular section of the book, he talks about “The Cry to Know God.” This quote comes on the heels of a discussion of the fearful symmetry of God being both “Holy” and “Father.”
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if ther is no guarantee of goodwill. That which God has joined together, let no man put asunder. Thanks be to God, we know with a surety that His grace and goodness and hope and His love underlie all these attributes. How do we know? Follow the face of Christ to the cross, and you will see it.
This is our Holy Father; the One with whom our hearts would remain restless until they found rest in Him.
