Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and
consider the great love of the LORD.
Psalm 107:43
Since God is infinite,
whatever He is must be infinite also; that is, it must be without any actual or
conceivable limits. The moment we allow ourselves to think of God as having
limits, the one of whom we are thinking is not God but someone or something less
than and different from Him. To think rightly of God we must conceive of Him as
being altogether boundless in His goodness, mercy, love, grace and in whatever
else we may properly attribute to the Deity. It is not enough that we
acknowledge God's infinite resources; we must believe also that He is
infinitely generous to bestow them. The first is not too great a strain on our
faith. Even the deist will admit that the Most High God, possessor of heaven
and earth, must be rich beyond the power of man to conceive. But to believe
that God is a giver as well as a possessor takes an advanced faith and
presupposes that there has been a divine revelation to that effect which gives
validity to our expectations. Which indeed there has been. We call this
revelation the Bible. Believing all this, why are we Christians so poverty
stricken? I think it is because we have not learned that God's gifts are meted
out according to the taker, not according to the giver. Though almighty and
all-wise, God yet cannot pour a great gift into a small receptacle.
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