I got this quote from reading Chip Stam's website Worship Quote of the Week. This is a thought-provoking website on all things related to Christian worship. In his research, Chip considers both historical practice and contemporary trends.
Today, vast stress is laid on the thought that God is PERSONAL, but this truth is so stated as to leave the impression that God is a person of the same sort as we are--weak, inadequate, ineffective, a little pathetic. But this is not the God of the Bible! Our personal life is a finite thing; it is limited in every direction, in space, in time, in knowledge, in power. But God is not so limited. He is eternal, infinite, and almighty. He has us in His hands; but we never have Him in ours. Like us, He is personal, but unlike us He is GREAT. In all its constant stress on the reality of God's personal concern for His people, and on the gentleness, tenderness, sympathy, patience, and yearning compassion that He shows towards them, the Bible never lets us lose sight of His majesty, and His unlimited dominion over all His creatures.
— J. I. Packer, KNOWING GOD. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1973, p. 74.
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