(Charles Spurgeon, “The Immutability of God!”)
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!…
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;
or 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!
The most excellent study!
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Something to ponder:
“Depend upon it, our hearts are all alike. To know that they are deceitful and desperately wicked, and to look to Jesus for mercy, help, and salvation–are, I think, the greatest attainments we can rise to in this imperfect state.” John Newton
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