5 Responses to the Boundless God
One of the evidences that we are growing in the knowledge God is that we are more aware of how little we know Him.
—John Snyder, Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically
George Swinnock (1627–1673) was an English nonconformist clergyman and writer who was known as a warm and practical preacher.
This post is excerpted from The Blessed and Boundless God.
God is great; therefore our worship of him must be great. God is the best; therefore our service to him must be the best. It reflects poorly upon God when we give something ordinary to him. … A great sovereign must have great sacrifices.
God’s excellency calls for incomparable reverence. … There is an infinite distance between God and us; therefore there ought to be (if it were possible) infinite reverence. Should not the vastness of his perfections provoke us to awe?
God’s excellency calls for incomparable humility. When we compare ourselves to those who have little, we are puffed up with pride, but when we see ourselves in the light of the incomparable God, we abhor ourselves for our pride. We never come to a right knowledge of ourselves (what pitiful and abominable wretches we are), until we come to a right knowledge of God (what an excellent and incomparable majesty he is).
God’s excellency calls for incomparable love. … As the greatest perfection, God must have the greatest affection. He deserves the greatest extensively: the heart, soul, and mind. And he deserves the greatest intensively: all the heart, all the soul, all the mind. Our love for God must be so great that our love for our father, mother, spouse, children, house, land, and life is hatred in comparison.
God’s excellency calls for incomparable trust. The more powerful and faithful a person is, the more firmly we trust him. God is incomparable in power and faithfulness; therefore he deserves our surest love and firmest faith.
God’s excellency calls for incomparable obedience. … Our obedience must be incomparable because partial obedience is unsuitable to such a great God.