Our Inadequate View Of God

I'm reading a book by A.W. Tozer called "Whatever Happened To Worship?", and thought these couple of paragraphs were pretty convicting. Speaking on the need for true worship in the Church, he writes:

"What does happen, then, in a Christian church when a fresh and vital working of the Spirit of God brings revival? In my study and observations, a revival generally results in a sudden bestowment of a spirit of worship. This is not the result of engineering or of manipulation. It is something God bestows on people hungering and thirsting for Him. With Spiritual renewing will come a blessed spirit of loving worship. These believers worship gladly because they have a high view of God. In some circles, God has been abridged, reduced, modified, edited, changed and amended until He is no longer the God whom Isaiah saw, high and lifted up. Because He has been reduced in the minds of so many people, we no longer have that boundless confidence in His character that we used to have. He is the God to whom we go without doubts, without fears. We know he will not deceive us or cheat us. He will not break his covenant or change his mind. We have to be convinced so we can go into his presence in absolute confidence... The God of the whole earth cannot do wrong! He does not need to be rescued. It is man's inadequate concept of God that needs to be rescued."

That last bit was what really grabbed me. I find myself so often, especially with non-believers, fighting the need to defend God. I'm clutched with the urge to rescue him from his cosmically embarrassing social standing, almost as if I were escorting a well-loved but senile relative to a gathering of the modish elite. Now of course I don't actually view God that way, but when I look at my heart and the way I act toward him sometime, there is no other explanation. I need a bigger view of God's glory. The lost will never be won because they think God is logical. He isn't. They will never be won because they think he follows the rules. He doesn't. The lost will only ever be won when we who say we love God get so lost in our searching for him that we actually begin to see who he is. When our view of God is so enlarged, completely filling our vision until looking at anything else seems to be a waste of time, the lost will begin to wonder what exactly we are looking at. Let our passion be spent not in trying to defend God's "reasonableness", but in asking him to reveal himself to us, so that our knowledge of him would consume us and make us salt and light.

"Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD..." Jeremiah 9:23-24