J. I. Packer

J.I. Packer was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian and writer (1926 - 2020). ALL tweets (without exception) are from his works.

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“I should like to be remembered as one who pointed to the pasturelands.” #JIPacker #sdg

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The effect of Christian meditation is ever to humble us, as we contemplate God’s greatness and glory and our own littleness and sinfulness, and to encourage and reassure us. #sdg #meditation

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How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God. #sdg

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Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

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No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God.

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The psalmist was interested in truth, orthodoxy, biblical teaching and theology, not as ends in themselves but as means to the further ends of life & godliness. His ultimate concern was with the knowledge & service of the great God whose truth he sought to understand. (Psa119:1)

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What is meditation? Christian meditation is the activity of calling to mind, thinking over and applying to oneself the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. #sdg

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Meditate on God, prayerfully naming his various names found in Scripture. Let yourself feel small in his presence. #sdg

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There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. #sdg

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What comfort do you take from knowing that your name is engraved on the hand of God? #sdg

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What is meditation? It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by the help of God, as a means of communion with God. It is a matter of talking to oneself about God and oneself. #sdg #meditation

[J. I. Packer @PackerJI]

What is meditation? It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by the help of God, as a means of communion with God. It is a matter of talking to oneself about God and oneself. #sdg

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There is unspeakable comfort – the sort of comfort that energises, be it said, not enervates – in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. #sdg

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We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. It was for this purpose that revelation was given, and it is to this use that we must put it. J.i. Packer #study #God #sdg

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Do not all children of God long, with the psalmist, to know just as much about our heavenly Father as we can learn? Is not the fact that we have received a love for this truth one proof that we have been born again? #sdg

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By knowing God, we may say with Habakkuk in the face of economic ruin or any other deprivation: ‘Though the fig tree does not bud, … yet I will rejoice in the LORD’. Happy the person who can say these things and mean them! #ThankYouPacker #JIPacker #sdg

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He (God) knows me as a friend, one who loves me. There is no moment when his eye is off me or his attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when his care falters. This is momentous knowledge. #sdg

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What matters supremely is not the fact that I know God but the larger fact that underlies it – the fact that he knows me.

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When asked for any final words to the church, Packer replied: “I think I can boil it down to four words: ‘Glorify Christ every way.” #sdg #JIPacker