busy, eager, and somewhat frustrated

We commonly represent God as a busy, eager, somewhat frustrated Father hurrying about seeking help to carry out his benevolent plan to bring peace and salvation to the world …Too many missionary appeals are based upon this fancied frustration of Almighty God. An effective speaker can easily excite pity in his hearers, not only for [those who haven’t heard about or responded to Jesus] but for the God who has tried so hard and so long to save them and has failed for want of support. I fear that thousands of young persons enter Christian service from no higher motive than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation his love has gotten him into and his limited abilities seem unable to get him out of. Add to this a certain degree of commendable idealism and a fair amount of compassion for the underprivileged and you have the true drive behind much Christian activity today.

--a.w. towzer’s the knowledge of the holy--

Towzer frequently mentions the need to think worthily and rightly of God. As I had mentioned in another post, my faulty view of him lately is that I need to convince him to do something he doesn’t really want to do…and therefore we’re/I’m striving but not seeming to go anywhere (like swimming upstream). As I’m a newby who is “busy, eager, and somewhat frustrated” :)…I confess that my view of God is often that He is these things, too. Maybe this is because I’m thinking “creature thoughts” (a towzer phrase) about the Creator. But I think of myself and loads of other 20-somethings with “commendable idealism and a fair amount of compassion for the underprivileged.” Yet without thinking worthily and rightly of God, it seems we might be shooting for gold star stickers and missing out on gold crowns for true Jesus lovers. Hm.