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September 5th Evening
“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” — Job 38:16
Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so in matters spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my brain with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human responsibility? These deep and dark truths I am no more able to comprehend than to find out the depth which coucheth beneath, from which old ocean draws her watery stores. Why am I so curious to know…
the reason of my Lord’s providences, the motive of His actions, the design
of His visitations? Shall I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold
the universe in my palm? yet these are as a drop of a bucket compared
with the Lord my God. Let me not strive to understand the infinite, but
spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess
by affection, and let that suffice me. I cannot penetrate the heart of the sea,
but I can enjoy the healthful breezes which sweep over its bosom, and I
can sail over its blue waves with propitious winds. If I could enter the
springs of the sea, the feat would serve no useful purpose either to myself
or to others, it would not save the sinking bark, or give back the drowned
mariner to his weeping wife and children; neither would my solving deep
mysteries avail me a single whit, for the least love to God, and the simplest
act of obedience to Him, are better than the profoundest knowledge. My
Lord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a
love for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life.
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“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” — Job 38:16
Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so in matters spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my brain with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human responsibility? These deep and dark truths I am no more able to comprehend than to find out the depth which coucheth beneath, from which old ocean draws her watery stores. Why am I so curious to know…
the reason of my Lord’s providences, the motive of His actions, the design
of His visitations? Shall I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold
the universe in my palm? yet these are as a drop of a bucket compared
with the Lord my God. Let me not strive to understand the infinite, but
spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess
by affection, and let that suffice me. I cannot penetrate the heart of the sea,
but I can enjoy the healthful breezes which sweep over its bosom, and I
can sail over its blue waves with propitious winds. If I could enter the
springs of the sea, the feat would serve no useful purpose either to myself
or to others, it would not save the sinking bark, or give back the drowned
mariner to his weeping wife and children; neither would my solving deep
mysteries avail me a single whit, for the least love to God, and the simplest
act of obedience to Him, are better than the profoundest knowledge. My
Lord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a
love for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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