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1 | How Great is our God? | Ps 8:9 | Wild Olive Shoot | 169048 | ||
“Silent I bow, and humbly I adore” – C. H. Spurgeon Dear Humbled, I hope you don’t mind me posting to this but it is a question that I think about much and love every chance I get to proclaim God’s greatness although I don’t think I can convey my emotions as well as others could on the Forum. And besides, you can always repost the question. How great is our God, The God, The Only God, The One True God... I would not hesitate to proclaim, that given an eternity of eternities, man would still fall despondently short in regards to describing God’s greatness and confess that His Greatness is exceedingly inexpressible as it pertains to our limited minds and hearts. However, I feel it is our honor and privilege to endeavor to find a description that would possibly be deemed praiseworthy as we seek to know our ever-loving God and the greatness that does not envelope Him, rather the greatness of which is enveloped by Him. He is the Creator, Keeper and Sustainer of the Universe. From our limited perspective, I would suppose it almost, if not impossible, for our imaginative minds to explore beyond that; but we shall try, will we not? He is beyond greatness, something my mind could never grasp, at least grasp this side of heaven. A couple of notes from Spurgeon in which I know I could never achieve the poetic endearment expressed in his partial description of a Great God. WOS “And his glory above the heavens: higher than the loftiest part of creation; the clouds are the dust of his feet, and sun, moon, and stars twinkle far below his throne. Even the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him. His glory cannot be set forth by the whole visible universe, nor even by the solemn pomp of angelic armies; it is above all conception and imagination, for He is God -- infinite. Let us above all adore Him who is above all.” – C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Psalm 113:4 “How excellent is thy name! no words can express that excellency; and therefore it is left as a note of exclamation. The very name of Jehovah is excellent, what must his person be. Note the fact that even the heavens cannot contain his glory, it is set above the heavens, since it is and ever must be too great for the creature to express. When wandering among the Alps, we felt that the Lord was infinitely greater than all his grandest works, and under that feeling we roughly wrote these few lines:— Yet in all these how great soe'er they be, We see not Him. The glass is all too dense And dark, or else our earthborn eyes too dim. Yon Alps, that lift their heads above the clouds And hold familiar converse with the stars, Are dust, at which the balance trembleth not, Compared with His divine immensity. The snow-crown'd summits fail to set Him forth, Who dwelleth in Eternity, and bears Alone, the name of High and Lofty One. Depths unfathomed are too shallow to express The wisdom and the knowledge of the Lord. The mirror of the creatures has no space To bear the image of the Infinite. 'Tis true the Lord hath fairly writ his name, And set his seal upon creation's brow. But as the skilful potter much excels The vessel which he fashions on the wheel, E'en so, but in proportion greater far, Jehovah's self transcends his noblest works. Earth's ponderous wheels would break, her axles snap, If freighted with the load of Deity. Space is too narrow for the Eternal's rest, And time too short a footstool for his throne. E'en avalanche and thunder lack a voice, To utter the full volume of his praise. How then can I declare him? Where are words With which my glowing tongue may speak his name? Silent I bow, and humbly I adore.” – C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Psalm 8 |
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2 | How Great is our God? | Ps 8:9 | meusing | 169049 | ||
I love that poem. | ||||||
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