The Necessity of Devotional Theology

In Hosea 4.1, this morning, where the necessity of theology is clearly laid out. God chastises his own people because there is no faithfulness or steadfast love or knowledge of God in the land. I take from this that one cannot be faithful to God without knowledge of him. Nor is it legitimate to have a knowledge of God and not be faithful to him. These are two equal and opposite errors into which men fall.

If we do not have a robust, devotional, committed knowledge of God, then we cannot be faithful to him.

B. B. Warfield, in addressing the old saw about people who would rather be on their knees praying for ten minutes then studying theology for ten hours retorted: What? On your knees for ten hours with your books. Just so.