Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain. Psalm 139:6
At the
age of twenty, C. H. Spurgeon proved that he already had his priorities right:
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.
Other subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of
self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we
come to this master science, finding that our plumb line cannot sound its
depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the
thought, . . . “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of
contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God.
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