The great A.W. Tozer once wrote: "The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.” We need to be careful that our doctrines and systematic theologies don't con us into thinking we are genuinely connecting with the Living God. It is easy in these days to embrace a form of Christian faith that is devoted less to the experience of God than to abstractions about God. Quaker author Parker Palmer asks a great question in his Let Your Life Shine: "How did so many disembodied concepts emerge from a tradition whose central commitment is to 'the Word become flesh'?"
The aim of spending time in God's Word is not that we might have a relationship with our Bibles or become masters of theology (disembodied concepts- abstractions about God), but that we might truly encounter God himself in a relationship of reciprocal love (his love, of course, far out distancing, overpowering, and strengthening ours).
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