SPURGEON WRITES:

The proper study of God’s elect, is God. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God-is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father! 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! 

Other subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-contentment, and go our way with the thought, ‘Behold I am wise!’ But when we come to this master-science, finding that our plumb-line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height-we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild donkey’s colt; and with the solemn exclamation, ‘I am but of yesterday, and know nothing!’ No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God. 

The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified-and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing will so magnify the whole soul of man-as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity. While humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatory. 

Oh, there is in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound! In musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief. In the influence of the Holy Spirit, there is a balsam for every sore. 

Would you lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead’s deepest sea! Be lost in His immensity-and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. 

I know nothing which can . . . so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow; so speak peace to the winds of trial-as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead!

RESPONSE:

When speaking to children about infinity we often use numbers or metaphor. In the first instance the child is designated the task of counting as high as he can. This takes a long time as they grow older. The Father explains, “God is bigger and goes on forever.”

Another means to determine the vastness of the topic is to use hyperbole (and real truth): “I love you times infinity,” says the Father to which the child replies, “I love you times infinity, plus one!” Our God is infinity times infinity, plus one, and then some more infinity beyond that.

The opening passage from the Gospel of John we read:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

To even attempt to understand the Triune God is to grasp at the FACT that He exists within us, around us, in this realm, and in the heavenly realm. He exists in this time as well as the past. He existed before time itself as He is the one who created it, and He will exist in the future long after time as we know it ceases to be.

His power is great, His judgments are righteous, and His love for us is eternal. By seeking to understand God, we grow closer to Him, but at the same time realize how far we must go on our journey to understand the fullness of God Most High. Fret not, my friends, as you seek Him. You will find Him in all things if you simply sit quietly and sense His presence.

Blessings to you from the Ancient of Days. Jesus is King.

-Chase