Spurgeon on the Being of God

"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-content, and go our way with the thought, "Behold

I am wise." But when we come to this master science, finding that our

plumbline 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 ass's colt; and with 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....

But while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it. He who

often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply

plods around this narrow globe.... 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 so magnify the whole soul

of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great

subject of the Deity.

And, whilst 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;

and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every

sore. Would you lose your sorrow? 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 sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of

trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead."

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