Tozer Ch. 22 & 23

1. I think that Tozer links God's sovereignty to his freedom to say that He is sovereign because of his freedom. God being free means that he can do anything he pleases at any time, and it will be perfect. That is the embodiment of his sovereignty because to be completely sovereign, he must have complete freedom. We are not sovereign because we are nowhere near completely free, so anything we try and put into action is immediately potentially subject to imperfection.

2. The analogy of the ocean liner is very helpful to me to understand our free will in relation to God's sovereignty. It is almost like there are different levels on which things are happening. To us, our lives seem like all there is (which would be the crew on board), and we are free to go about our lives as we please. However, what we cannot see is that we are aboard God's ship, and we cannot change its course or action, but we can still live our own lives on a smaller level.

3. I agree with Tozer on all of the points that he displayed in this chapter. Many of the ideas he stated are parts of the creeds that we recite at church and in chapel. Many of them are held truths of the church. I think that the most necessary point he makes is that there must be an utter committal of the whole life to Christ in faith. This is one of the biggest steps we must make in our spiritual journey, and I think that this is a condition that is something to be striven after our whole lives. As Jesus commands us, we are to "take up our cross and follow him."