Thursday, July 2, 2015

The Impenetrable Tracts of His Glory!

O my soul! Seek to fill yourself with thoughts of the Almighty. Lose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory!
"Can you by searching find out God?" Can the insect fathom the ocean?  Can the worm scale the skies?  Can the finite comprehend the Infinite?  Can the mortal grasp Immortality?  We can do no more than stand on the brink of the shoreless sea, and cry, "Oh the depth!" "From everlasting to everlasting, You are God!"




Shrouded in the great and amazing mystery of eternity, before one star revolved in its sphere, before one angel moved his wing, God was!  His own infinite presence filling all space. All time, to Him, is but as the heaving of a breath, the beat of a pulse, the twinkling of an eye!
He was as infinitely glorious when He inhabited the solitudes of immensity alone as He is now with the songs of angel and archangel sounding in His ear!


This is the Being to whom I can look up with sweetest confidence, and call "My Father!" This is the Infinite One, whom "the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain," whom I call "My God!"


[John MacDuff]





Psalm 90:2 ... Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Psalm 48:14 ... For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Isaiah 63:16 ... Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.