Contemplation of the
Divinity
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 thoughts that
vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass’s colt and
with the solemn exclamation, “I am but of yesterday, and know
nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble
the mind, than thoughts of God.
- C. H. Spurgeon, The Immutability of God
